Fatai Azeez, an auto mechanic and his wife, Suliyat are a currently going through a very tough time.
The couple, whose children were snatched right from their home, have been expecting a phone call about the whereabouts of their children; which is yet to come.
Fatai said in an interview that he has lost his bearing just expecting a call that would tell him what to do ro retrieve his children, after an apprentice simply identified as Grace, kidnaped them less than 24 hours after she resumed work in Suliyat’s shop.
The children, Kafayat (6) and Farouk (4), were taken by Grace under the pretext that she wanted to go and buy food when thier mother went for a hairdresser’s meeting.
Fatai said that the matter had so far devastated his wife that he feared for her sanity.
“My wife is acting like a mad woman currently and only God would help us. I am just struggling to stay sane. I don’t know what to think. I don’t even know the girl. My wife said she is like Delta Igbo,” he said.
In his desperation, Fatai said many spiritualists are giving him hope that the children were still safe.
“They told me the children are still around and have not been harmed. I got a call from some people who have earlier seen our report in the newspaper that some children were found at the Seme border, but when I got there, my children were not among the four children. What I don’t understand now is why we have not received any call from whoever is keeping our children,” he said.
The couple have given statements at the Ojo Police Division but said they have heard nothing from the police.
But Fatai said he is apprehensive about the children’s health.
“My children rarely leave the house and I don’t know what could be happening to them right now,” he said.
The spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Dolapo Badmos, has said the police are still investigating the children’s abduction and working on every lead to recover them.