Anxiety and confusion enveloped the rustic Inuosegba community in
Abeokuta as residents discovered items suspected to be severed human
wrist, school pupils’ bags and uniforms in a locked building while
searching for a missing 18 months old baby.
The 18 months baby
identified as Hezekiah Opeyemi Ogundele was taken to a naming ceremony
at Inuosegba community around 4pm on Sunday by his brother but while the
ceremony was to commence, the baby was discovered to have disappeared
mysteriously.
The Nation gathered that the naming ceremony was
put on hold indefinitely while apprehensive guests and residents began
to comb surrounding bushes and home, searching for the baby.
The
mother of the baby, 26 years old Fashion designer, Elizabeth Ogundele,
said her elder sister gave birth and was preparing to the naming when it
was discovered that her son had disappeared.
In the course of
the search, they discovered that a building near the venue of naming,
severed wrist and school children’s items were found in a suspicious
building within the neighbourhood, forcing the residents to place the
property under surveilance as there was no one inside at the time.
The
Nation gathered that later in the day, a commercial motorcycle operator
visited the building in the wee hour and was arrested and handed over
to the Police at the Lafenwa Divisional Police Headquarters, Abeokuta.
The
Nation visited the building believed to be owned by one Chief Olasile
Ifayemi, about 26 years old young man, and witnessed vandalising the
over seven room bungalow and desecrated his shrine inside and over a
dozen pots of fetish objects.
Operatives the Special Anti –
Robbery Squad (SARS), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
(NSCDC) were sighted making frantic effort to control the enraged crowd
bent on bringing down the building.