About a week ago, a 9-year-old boy called Korede Taiwo was rescued from a CCC church where he’d been chained and starved for over two weeks by his father who said he was a thief.
Now another case has been reported in Abeokuta. This time the victim was a 10-year-old girl named Promise Udeh who was chained by her aunt, Chaimaka Okafor at their Adigbe residence.
The aunt claimed that Promise stole her N4,000.
The police have rescued the girl but are currently after Chiamaka, who is said to have absconded from her place when the threat of police became apparent. She is yet to be found and reportedly fled the scene moments before the Police arrived on the scene.
Promise had reportedly been chained for two days before being rescued by police, neighbours had alerted police to her plight.
According to the PUNCH, the spokesperson to the Police said on the case, “We had an information that the girl was chained to a burglarproof window at an uncompleted building at Adigbe area and this led our men to the scene.
“The girl told us that it was her aunty who chained her on the allegation that she stole a sum of N4,000. The woman is now on the run, while her husband, who is an accomplice, has been arrested and he is helping us in our investigation.”
One of the neighbours also confirmed that Chiamaka had actually chained Promise saying “At a point, when the girl was chained to the window in the kitchen, she was crying out to me that ‘I should please give her food.’ Other neighbours too heard her cry.
“Then the landlord had left home for their shop at Pansheke Market. Later, the girl was moved to the boys’ quarters and chained again. Some of us tried to intervene but she warned us to steer clear, because it was none of our business.”