Gunmen have abducted a four-month-old baby from the family house, close to PCN Primary School in East Itam, Itam Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, and thereafter zoomed off in a waiting vehicle.
Penpushing reports that the baby’s father, Udeme Eyo made this known explaining that the incident happened around 3 a.m. on Saturday, and urged security agents in the state to come to their aid by recovering the abducted child.
The father while narrating the incident explained that he and his wife were shocked when two gunmen stormed their bedroom after a loud bang on the door and demanded their four-month-old son, recalling that he was half sleep when the abductors arrived.
‘I was half asleep when I heard the bang on the door. I jumped out of 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’, he stated.
‘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 an alarm to alert my neighbours, I saw them zoom off in a car that was parked about a pole away’, Eyo added.
“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 man lamented
Penpushing further reports that the community head, Prof Efanga Usua, in reaction noted that the incident was strange in the area, adding that some unknown men on a motorcycle recently dispossessed a mentally deranged woman in the area of her baby, stating that the matter has been reported to the police.
The Divisional Crime Officer Ayadehe Police Station in Itu Local Government Area, Bokime Bassey, however, confirmed the incident, adding it has commenced investigation into the matter, while as at the time of filing this report the Akwa Ibom Police Command Public Relations Officer Timfon John, was yet to issue any official statement on the development.
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