Housewife Abducted While Jogging In Lagos

LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A housewife, Mrs. Gbemisola Alabi, 35 was on Sunday morning kidnapped by some unknown persons, while jogging around Monastery road near Novare Mall – Shoprite, Shongotedo- Ajah, Lagos on Sunday (28th July 2012).
As at 7pm on Monday, her family was yet to be contacted by her captors.
According to her relatives, she went out for her routine exercise , when she was accosted by her captors.
A post circulated on whatsapp monitored by NewsRangers, the poster appealed to readers to assist in locating her.
“We need your help to find her. Please help share her photo on all your social media handles, put a call through to people you feel can help us. Call the Ajah police command if you have any information or call Mr. Adebayo 08029998831 representing the family. Anything you can do please. We also need your prayers that she returns home to her family soon and in good health. Thank you,” the poster pleads.
Meanwhile, the Osun state –born missing woman’s three year-old daughter was said to have been asking after her mother since the incident occurred.
Alabi’s elder brother, Adebayo, who spoke with newsmen, confirmed the incident. Speaking in an emotional laden tone, he informed that he was at the Police station to speak with the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Ajah division on the matter.
He said, “It is true. She is my younger sister. She is a private person. Nobody has called to demand for ransom since the incident occurred. That makes it more worrisome for us. She went jogging and that was all.”
Alabi’s husband, who was not in Lagos when the incident occurred, returned home last night when the news reached him.
Their three-year-old daughter according to another relative who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, “ She has been asking for the whereabouts of her mother . She kept asking, where is mummy?
“We are using this medium to beg whoever has any information on her whereabouts to please inform the Police or reach us. We appeal to the conscience of her abductors to have mercy on her little daughter. We have been going through emotional trauma since this incident occurred”. Police sources at Ajah division confirmed that the matter had been reported there as at 7.20 pm yesterday, adding that investigation had begun with a view to rescuing the missing woman alive.

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