Kids of an Utese landlord have reportedly been kidnapped by his tenants whose names were simply given as Mercy and Rose.
TheNation reports that the children whose names were given as Amada, aged four, and Christable, aged two were reportedly left in the custody of the tenants by their mother who went to the stream to wash her clothes.
The tenants had only just recently moved to the community about three weeks ago and told their landlord that one was a farm hand and the other a hair dresser. .
The residents told the distraught parents that they saw the tenants stopping vehicles on the highway but thought they were taking the children out as usual. .
Speaking with reporters in Benin, the state capital, mother of the missing children, Faith Osaruoname, said she usually leaves the children with the tenants whenever had to go out.
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Osaruoname said it was when her husband returned that it dawned on her that the tenants had fled with her two daughters. She said: “I have been calling the numbers of those girls and they were switched off.” .
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Father of the children, Omokpia Osaruoname, said he has reported the matter at the Okada Police Division. Omokpia said “I don’t have their photographs; I don’t know anything about them.”
