Asmau Ajibade
A 15-year-old Junior Secondary School 2 pupil of Agbara Commuinty
Junior Secondary School, Ogun State who was declared missing by the
police in the state left many people in shock after she was found having
fun in the boyfriend's house.
The girl identified as Asmau Ajibade, went missing for seven days after she left home for school.
According to Punch, the girl lived with the guardians, Alhaji Rauf
Adetona and Alhaja Ajarat Adetona, on Area 8, Road 810, Block AM, Plot
18, OPIC Estate, Agbara, off Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Ogun State before
she reportedly disappeared.
Ajibade it was learnt had left the house at about 7.30am last
Monday in her school uniform. The belief in the house was that she had
gone to school. The guardians became apprehensive when it was 4pm and
she had not returned home. Record of the school reportedly revealed that
she was absent that day.
Ajarat said the girl had been living with them since she was four
years old, adding that she was surprised by her disappearance. She said
it was the first time she would leave home without returning.
She said, “She went to school on Monday and has not returned. Her teachers told us that she didn’t come to school that day.
“But a cobbler around here told us that he fixed her torn
sandal that morning. The cobbler said she seemed to be in a hurry as she
told him that somebody was waiting for her.
“She had never done anything like this, although her teachers
had told us that she was keeping bad company; and I warned her to stop
associating with bad people.
“Her parents had divorced. His father died while she was six
months old. She had been living with us for 11 years now. Her attitude
that morning did not show that she planned to do anything.”
Rauf said he was on his farm when a call came in that Ajibade was
missing. He said they were told at the school that Ajibade might have
absconded with some of her school friends and the incident reported at
the Agbara Police Station.
He said, “She always prepared the food she would eat at the
school and did same that morning. My wife gave her money in addition to
the food and she thanked Alhaja and left. I went to my farm around 9am.
At about 4pm, my wife called me that Asmau (Ajibade) had not come back
home.
“I told her to be patient because she came home around 3.30pm
at times. When it was 5pm, she called me back and said she had gone to
Asmau’s school, but she didn’t see her.
“On Tuesday, we went back to the school. The teachers at the
school told us that she had become a wayward girl and had been moving
with a friend who had been expelled from the school.
“We reported at the police station on our estate and we were told to come back on Wednesday if we didn’t see her.
“On Wednesday, we were directed to the Agbara Police Station.
The police collected her picture from us and promised to radio other
divisions. They said she might have eloped with a boy.”
However, the girl was rescued last Saturday while living with a
guard identified as John who is her lover in the Agbara area of Ogun
State. John was apprehended along with a cobbler, Moses who hooked the
girl up with John.
One of the guardians, Alhaji Rauf Adetona, said Ajibade confessed
that it was the cobbler who hooked her up with John, adding that she
spent four days with the lover.
He said, “When the cobbler saw your (The PUNCH) report on her
disappearance, he informed John. When John tried to return her to the
estate, she fled. She spent four days with John. We found her school
uniform with John.
“A family friend saw her in Oko Afo, Badagry, and called us.
She wanted to run away from him because she knows him. But the man lied
to her that he would never tell us.
“They agreed to meet somewhere in the community the following day and that was how we found her.
“She took us to the house where John works as a guard and said
it was Moses who hooked her up with John. The police have arrested the
two of them.”
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed John and Moses’ arrest.
“The girl has been reunited with her guardians and the suspects arrested. They will be arraigned for abduction,” he added.
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