Family friend sells 3 year old girlfor N20,000

A three-year-old girl, Success Onyeisi was
kidnapped from her home on December 22, 2015
and hasn't been seen since then.
The toddler was allegedly kidnapped by a
neighbour and

supposed family friend, Emmanuel
Okpara, who during the search of missing 3 year
old, helped the toddler's father, Godwin Onyeisi,
look for the girl, until he was accused by people
who saw him with the child about the time she
reportedly went missing.
Her father, a commercial motorcyclist said he
has spent all his savings, about N60,000, on
police investigations and other logistics to no
avail.
Based on the accusation, Okpara has been
arrested and transferred to the Special Anti-
Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, where he allegedly
confessed that he sold the toddler for N20,000
but didn't say who the buyer was or where he
could be located.
The little girl's father, Godwin Onyeisi said:
“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 continued:
“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 woman in whose house the middleman
usually slept was arrested but later released
because she knew didn't know anything about
the case.
It was gathered 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 the child still hasn't
been found.
The Police have launched a manhunt for the
buyer and the prophet he allegedly gave the child
to. The investigation is supposedly still ongoing.

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