The FCT police command has detained the proprietor and all the teachers of Star Child Academy, Abuja, over the disappearance of three siblings who are pupils of the school.
The children, whose names were given as Marvelous, Alex and Rehoboth Sunday, were said to have gone missing from the school on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
According to a report, the children’s mother had gone to pick them up from their school located around the ECWA One area of Kabusa, but they were nowhere to be found.
Efforts made by their mother, staff of the school and residents to locate them were said to have been unsuccessful.
A family friend, Mr. Benson Ubong, told Punch in an interview that residents looked for the children in every nook and cranny of Kabusa from the day of the incident till Wednesday but to no avail.
“The father of the three children is my colleague and we live in the same area. Around 1.28pm on Tuesday, we were sitting together and having some conversation when a call from his wife came in. She said she went to the school to pick up the three children, but they were nowhere to be found. The father immediately put a call through to the owner of the school.
“The woman was not really cooperating at that moment; their dad was upset. About 20 minutes later, he left the place of work and dashed to his residence. He then reported the incident at a police station.
“On Wednesday, women in the community, both young and old, protested at the school and the police station. After then, there was information that somewhere around Waru, there were corpses of some children; we went there and there was nothing like that.
“Up till now, we don’t know where they are; their parents and the entire community have been thrown into mourning. The family recently lost one of their children and now all of the surviving children are nowhere to be found. They are two females and one male. The first one is eight years old, the second is six years old and the last is two years old,” he said.
Spokesperson for the FCT police command, Ms Josephine Adeh, who confirmed the incident, said all the teachers in the school, alongside the proprietor, had been arrested over the matter.
“The matter was reported to us. We have arrested all the teachers and the proprietor of the school. The case has now been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID),” she said.
