This 2-year-old girl mysteriously disappeared from her parents’ bedside in Lagos

A two-year-old girl, Chinaza Agwa mysteriously disappeared from her parents' bedside in their residence in the Amuwo Odofin area of La­gos State on March 6....


According to Saturday Sun, gathered that Chinaza is the last child of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth and Chinyere Agwa whose 14-year old marriage has yielded four children namely; Emeka, 13, Chioma 9, Obinna, 7 and Chinaza, 2.

Recounting how Chinaza disap­peared, the mother, Mrs. Chinyere said that the last time she saw her daughter was around 1am on the fateful March 6, adding that Chin­aza was wearing a red trouser and a top.

"The last time I saw my last daughter was on 6th of March, around 1am. I had just fed her with tea and bread. She was wearing red trousers with a shirt. The only thing she could say was to call mummy, daddy and brother. She is a girl that when you go close to her, you would not regret it. She plays with everybody," she said.

After feeding her daughter, Chinyere went to bed and slept off. It was not until 4am when she woke up to check on her daughter that she noticed her disappearance from her side.

"It was around 4am when I woke up from sleep but I did not see my daughter. I woke my hus­band up and he told me to check her in the other room where her brothers and sister laid. I did as my husband told me, but I did not see her. I continued to search for her. I went outside the room to search for her, yet I didn't see her".

Chinyere did not limit her search for Chinaza to the rooms. Im­mediately, she decided to call the at­tention of her neighbours to her pre­dicament. As she was stepping out of her shanty of a house; built with woods and covered with polythene, she noticed something strange, the front door of her makeshift apart­ment, was widely opened.

It was an unusual scenario.
"I began to shout. I woke all my neighbours. I urged them to help me check if my daugh­ter walked into their houses. But I discovered my front door was opened.

I hardly leave the front door opened. I was the one who closed the compound gate and our door that night. I could not have left the door opened," she wondered.


While her neighbours were wail­ing, Chinyere noticed that the gate to the compound was also tam­pered with.
"The gate was forceful­ly opened.

 Our neighbours passed underneath the gate. Some of my neighbours came home around 1 am. Underneath the gate there is a large hole there that one can pass through into the compound," she disclosed.
Shedding light on the matter was Chinaza's father, Kenneth Agwa, who said his daughter's disappear­ance was like abduction by an in-house friend.


He alleged that their door was opened when they woke up, dis­closing that his door can be opened from outside, even when locked from within.


"They could enter my apartment through the main door. Anybody close to me in the compound knows how to open it. You can stretch your hand over the door and unhook the door. When we lost our key there is a place I cut the door.

All the boys in the compound come to my house to charge their phones, therefore, they know how to unlock the door. That day, they used the same method to steal the baby away," he narrated.
Kenneth said that they searched for Chinaza till daybreak. Thereaf­ter, she took h search to the streets, close by bushes and neighbouring communities.

"When we didn't see our child at dawn, we started to look for her everywhere. We even went to bushes to search for her. We went to neighbouring communities also. We also went to the barracks on our way back, we saw estate landlords who have joined the search.

They group themselves and searched with us. They also searched inside the forest. It was in the night that DPO Trade Fair Police arrived with patrol van, it was then he said that we must come to the police to make proper statement," he stated