A 21-year-old and final year student in the department of Electrical Engineering of University of Abuja Halima Sagir Mahmud, has been declared missing, who was reportedly last seen shortly after she departed its main campus along Airport Road on Tuesday.
Penpushing reports that the elder sister of the victim, Amina said she (Halima) left her parents’ home at Gwagwalada on Tuesday morning for the university main campus to follow up with her undergraduate project work but has yet to return home.
“She was last seen in the morning yesterday as she left for school. She reached out by 3 p.m. saying she was on her way back home (and that) if food was ready. She still didn’t get home after five hours’, she stated
Penpushing further reports that Amina explained that the school campus is about 15-minute drive from their parent’s home but that her sister (Halima) has not made it home since she made the call that she was coming home.
The elder sister said her parents went in search of her at the school campus but that there was no trace of her, adding that she (Halima) has never stayed out past 6 pm (at worst) stating that the family became very worried due to the situation in Abuja presently.
‘She has never stayed out past 6 pm (at worst) and we were very worried due to the situation in Abuja presently. At about 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, while we were persistently calling her number, someone picked up the call and said the owner of this phone is dead, the owner of this phone is dead and started speaking Hausa. When we were asking where are you, where are you, the person hung up and this person refused to pick up our calls’, she narrated.
Penpushing also reports that Amina said the family kept calling her phone number upon noticing her late arrival but got no response, explaining that at some point, the individual would pick up and then place it on the speaker but was whispering in Hausa language what they did not understand.
The sister said the family had gone to the Nigerian Police Force headquarters in Abuja to file an official report and that a police officer immediately helped in tracking her (Halima) phone number only to discover that the call was made on Nasarawa road, Kano State.
Penpushing reports that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command Public Relations Officer Josephine Adeh, a Superintendent of police, was yet to make official statement on the ugly development as at the time of this report
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