This should indeed be a lesson a lot of young girls should learn from. It's a story about a 300level
English Language student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Annabel Nzubechukwu
Edeh, who has not been seen since she left a night club with an unknown man
many weeks ago in Awka, Anambra state.
Annabel had gone to the night club with friends on September
17th and as the group of girls prepared to leave, Annabel told her friends she
was in need of money so would go home with a guy she'd met at the club and
would return to school the following morning. It's been 6 weeks and Annabel
hasn't been seen.
Below is the full gist as told my Oluchukwu Igwe, a 500l
Chemical Engineering student of same school.....
They were six
girls, who went to Lounge 24 Gaga, a nightclub in Awka, the Anambra State
capital, on September 17. They are Calista, Uju, Lovelyn, Ada, Chika and
Annabel. All of them are friends and live close to one another. When they
returned to their hostels the following morning, one of them – Annabel – could
not be found.
Where is Annabel?
This was the question classmates of Annabel Nzubechukwu Edeh could not answer.
The 300-Level English Language and Literature student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe
University (UNIZIK) in Awka has not been seen anywhere, 43 days after she went
to the night club with her friends.
Was she kidnapped?
Is she dead? These are some of the questions being asked by her distraught
family members and friends.
Annabel, 24, a
native of Enugu State, She is the only girl in a family of three, was last seen on Wednesday, September 17 evening, when
she left her Paradise City Hostel in Iyiagu Estate, Awka. When she was
leaving the club, Annabel reportedly left at midnight with a guy she met at the
club. That was the last time she was seen.
Annabel’s friend
and hostel mate, who simply gave her name as Ifeoma, said after clubbing, the
girls decided to find a place to sleep before returning to their hostels. But
Annabel, she said, told her friends she wanted to go with Mmiri, a male
acquaintance, she met at the club. She was said to have told her friends that
she was in need of money {uko-ego}, which could have informed her decision to go away
with the guy.
When she did not
return in the morning, it was learnt that Ada and Chika called Annabel’s phone
but were disappointed to hear a male voice claiming to have found the phone on
the ground and asked the ‘owner’ to come for it.
Ada and Chika, it
was gathered, retrieved the phone and contacted Annabel’s elder brother,
Ifeanyi, who reported the matter at the State Criminal Investigation Department
(SCID) in Awka.
CAMPUSLIFE learnt
that Ada and Chika were detained for alleged complicity but were later released
on bail. When contacted on
the phone, it was learnt that Mmiri claimed Annabel left his house at 3:30am
when she refused to enter his room.
But, after the
conversation, Mmiri reportedly switched off his phone and stopped going to a
popular bar, where he drinks with his friends. As of now, He is nowhere to be found. Our
correspondent’s efforts to speak with Annabel’s friends she went to the
nightclub with were futile. All of them declined to comment on the issue.
Annabel’s
roommate, Ukamaka, gave an account of what happened when she spoke to
CAMPUSLIFE on telephone. She said: “Annabel
told me she was going to the club that evening. Her friends, Ada and Chika,
waited in the compound till they were joined by their other friends. I had a
premonition of the incident in a dream I had the previous night. I told her not
to go to the club but she refused. When the other three girls arrived, they all
left together. When she did not return in the morning, I called her line but
nobody picked. Later, a man claimed he found it.”
Asked to describe
the kind of person Annabel is, Ukamaka said that her roommate is a good
Christian and hardworking, saying Annabel is a good tailor. “I believe Annabel
is a victim of circumstance,” Ukamaka said.
Ifeanyi said his
family remained devastated by the incident. “We are devastated at the moment.
When I received the news, I travelled from Onitsha to Awka to report the matter
at the police station. The matter is still being attended to at SCID and “B”
Division. We have even gone spiritual to seek God’s help to find my missing sister.
Our Dad is late but mum is highly disorganised.”
Ifeanyi said the
matter had been reported to the UNIZIK management.
When CAMPUSLIFE
visited Annabel’s mother in Onitsha, she fought back tears as neighbours
consoled her. She said: “I warned my daughter to stay clear of bad friends, but
she would not listen. When she was admitted in a hospital a few months ago, my
spirit never accepted the kind of girls who visited her. Now, they have done
their worst. I can’t see my daughter, now. Where is my only daughter? Annabel
was seven months in my womb when my husband died.” {still wonder how people think and react especially after knowing the consequences of their birth}
Mrs Edeh said she
had consulted a prophet, who confirmed to her that her daughter is alive but
held captive somewhere. She claimed that the prophet informed her that it was
Annabel’s friends that facilitated her ‘abduction’ and threatened to sue them
if her daughter did not return within days.
She added: “All I
am asking is the safe return of my daughter. I have no other girl. If she was
kidnapped, those holding her would have called us. I am confused. We are only
praying to God and hoping that she returns home safe and alive. I am pleading
with anyone, who knows her whereabouts, to give useful information that can
help us to locate her.”
Source
We staffs and crew of Colossus Gists (#team_Colossus) pray and wish Miss Annabel safe return
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