Four youths who were arrested last year in separate locations in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State are yet to be found.
Parents of the youths, who were in Awka, during a stakeholders meeting of media and civil society groups, under the auspices of Anambra State Police Stakeholders Partnership Forum lamented that one year after police operatives arrested their children, they are yet to be found.
The men, Mr. Titus Orji and Gilbert Obinwa lamented that police operatives were also reluctant to help them trace the whereabouts of their children.
Narrating his story, Orji said his son, Jeremiah Chibuzor Orji, a student of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, left his student’s lodge at Oko Community after he received a call at about 9 p.m., but never returned.
“This happened on 19 March 2022. He was my only son, and we have looked for him everywhere. Some people in his area told us that some security men carrying guns were seen that night, close to his lodge, forcing him into a white bus.”
Also, Mr. Gilbert Obinwa in his own testimony said: “I was at home on April 24, 2022, when some policemen invaded my compound in Ekwulọbịa and arrested my son. As they were leaving, a boy who was working with my son came in with the Okada man who brought him, and they arrested both of them and left.
“They didn’t tell me what their offence was, or where they were taking them. I have been to every known police station since then looking for them, to no avail.
“We engaged a tracker, who showed that the boys are being kept in a certain location in Nteje community, and we involved the police, but they told us that area is dangerous, and that they won’t go.”
