Unidentified woman disappears with 6-yr-old girl

An unidentified woman has reportedly disappeared with a six-year-old girl in Benue State.

Our correspondent gathered that the missing girl, identified as Agatha Ngohide Apenanibo, is a pupil of RCM Primary School Tionsha in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State.

Our correspondent gathered that she was lured from the suburb by the unknown woman while playing with her friends during the break period.

The headmistress of the school, Mrs Grace Torkuma, told journalists in Makurdi yesterday that the incident happened on Thursday.

Torkuma explained that Agatha actually came to school and was marked “present” in the class register during the morning roll call and was in the class till break period when she and her classmates went out for break from which she never returned.

She said nobody noticed her absence because it was normal with the pupils in the school as most of them are instructed by their parents or guardians to return home to assist in domestic works, to sell or hawk their foodstuffs either in the market or within the community.

She further narrated that while the pupils were on break, Agatha in company of her classmates who later gave eyewitnesses account of the incident, stated that they were playing by the roadside which was close to the Makurdi-Naka Road when an unknown woman called her (Agatha) and gave her unspecified amount of money to buy biscuit and also followed her to where they never returned from.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Benue Command, SP Catherine Anene, confirmed the development, saying that investigation into the matter was currently going on.