Sad! How Trusted Neighbour Sold Man’s 3-Year Old Daughter For N20,000 (Photos)

Infact the things we read eh, only God can help us and our
family. Since December 22, Godwin Onyeisi has not known peace
following the mysterious disappearance of his three-year-old daughter, Success
from home.

The minor was allegedly abducted by a neighbour, Emmanuel
Okpara, who joined the father to look for the girl, until he was fingered by
people who saw him with the child about the time she reportedly went missing.

Success’ disappearance bungled the family’s plan to travel
home for the Yuletide and it is threatening the education of her other
siblings. Her father, a commercial motorcyclist said he has spent all his
savings – about N60,000 – on police investigation and other logistics.

Okpara has been arrested and transferred to the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, where he allegedly confessed that he sold the
minor for N20,000. But Onyeisi said they do not know who the buyer is or where
he lives.

At their Adebumoye Street, Coconut, Apapa, Lagos home, a
troubled Onyeisi told The Nation that he initially did not believe that Okpara,
whom he has treated like a brother over the years could kidnap his daughter.

“The worst part is that he (Okpara) followed me to all the
places I went to in search of my daughter, with the same clothe he wore when he
kidnapped her.

“He followed me on my motorcycle to all the palaces of the
Baales, all the streets and all the police stations we visited, until people
who saw him with her about the time she went missing, told us and the police
that he was the kidnapper,” Onyeisi said.

He said he was at work when his wife called him on phone
that she could not find their daughter.

His wife, he said, had left the girl, who was watching
cartoon at home, to quickly buy some of the things they need to travel to Delta
State for the Yuletide.

“My older children went to fetch water at the well in a
nearby compound. They went with other children in our yard. So, because we were
planning to travel, my wife left Success who was watching cartoon in the room
and rushed to the market.

“She was the one who called me  that they have been looking for Success and
have not seen her. Initially I didn’t really take her seriously because I did
not think anyone will want to harm me or my family.

“When I came back and they have not seen her yet, I started
going round the neighbourhood asking questions.

“As we were going round to ask people, the Baales were
sending messages through town criers that anyone that saw her should come
forward with the information.

“For two days, we went round in search of my daughter and my
neighbour was with me all through the period. He was wearing the same red
T-shirt that people saw him with while he took my daughter away. But he was
following me as if he did not know anything about her disappearance.

“From December 23, we started hearing information that he
was seen with my daughter, but I did not believe it because Success is very
close to him. I have been very good to his family; I even connected my
generator to his house to give them light.

“Whenever my daughter is given  food, she will take it to eat with him. Once
we bath her, she will take her clothe to him to wear for her. She usually slept
in their house, so I did not want to believe that he was behind her
disappearance.

“But three women later came to our house, among the three
was a woman he bought bottled water from while he was with my daughter. So, the
woman now said he saw him with my daughter and that after drinking from the
water, he gave my daughter to drink and they left.

“I still did not believe what they were saying. I told them
to stop lying against him until my wife got angry and went and reported to the
police that I was also a suspect. That was how I was arrested with him on
December 25 and we slept at the station.

“He was still denying it, until the women and all those who
saw him with my daughter came to the police station and identified him.

“They even described the clothe he was wearing, which
happened to be the same clothe he wore while he was following me about. That
was how the police detained him.

“After some days, he confessed that he was the one who took
her and that he sold her for N20,000 through somebody else to a man who lives
in Okota.

“He said he cannot remember the man and the middle man who
took the baby to the buyer usually stayed at a woman’s house here in Coconut.

“I have been going from church to church and they keep
telling me that my daughter is alive.

“Okpara should let me know if he has killed my daughter. If
my baby is still alive, he should say where she is. How can a man like that
kidnap a little girl and since then he doesn’t want to say where she is? Police
need to put pressure on him to say where my baby is.

“I have spent all my savings on the investigation of this
matter. I have been giving the police money so that the case is not slowed
down. Now I don’t even have money to pay for the school fees of my other
children,” he said.

The Police have launched a manhunt for the buyer and the
prophet he allegedly gave the child to.

It was gathered that the woman in whose house the middleman
usually slept was nabbed but she was released because she knew nothing about
the case.

It was learnt that the middleman gave the child to a chief,
who handed her over to his prophet for sacrifice.

All the locations mentioned by Okpara have been visited by
the police but they were deserted including two companies at Lekki said to be
owned by the yet-to-be identified chief.

The Nation learnt that efforts to nab the suspects have been
thwarted by their informants, who have been placed under watch.

“The police are very close to getting them. We will hunt
them down soonest. Both the man who bought the girl and the one who took her to
the buyer are being hunted, we are very close to getting them and will get
them,” the source said.

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