The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it had commenced an investigation into the abduction of a four-month-old baby at gunpoint in the Itu Local Government Area of the state.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Timfon John, who confirmed the incident while speaking with our correspondent on Monday, said the state Commissioner of Police, Waheed Ayilara, has ordered an investigation into the incident.
She said, “We are aware of the incident and we are on it. The CP has ordered an investigation into the incident already.”
Udeme Eyo, the father of the abducted baby, and his wife had sent a Save Our Soul message to security agencies to help recover their baby who was kidnapped at gunpoint in their house.
It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 3 a.m. on Saturday in their family house near the PCN Primary School, East Itam.
The father, while narrating the ugly incident, said his family was startled by a loud bang on the door at about 3 a.m. when two hefty men stormed their bedroom and demanded their baby.
“I was half asleep when I heard the bang on the door. I jumped out of my bed but the door was pulled to the ground with force. Two strange men entered and demanded my son. As a man, I tried to stop them but they brought out guns and machetes, I shrugged.
“They seized the child from my wife who was screaming, kicked her aside and made away with the baby. When I rushed out to raise the alarm to alert my neighbours, I saw them zoom off in a car that was parked about a pole away.
“As I speak, my wife is completely traumatised. We lost our first child at about the same age and now that she was being consoled by the new baby boy, this has happened. I’m completely confused,” the husband lamented.
The village head of the community, Prof. Efanga Usua, who spoke on the situation, expressed fear and disappointment, saying that such occurrence was strange in the area until recently when a mentally deranged woman was dispossessed of her baby by unknown motorcyclists.
He said plans are underway to call a meeting of the East Itam Northern Traditional Rulers to find a lasting solution to such frightening occurrences.
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