Chiedozie Azuike, a 17-year-old who recently gained admission into a
private university in Enugu state, has been declared missing. Punch
reports that Chiedozie went missing on the day he was to resume in the
school.
The distraught mum of the missing undergraduate, Maureen
Azuike, says she believes that her son was hypnotised because strange
things had been happening around him before his disapperance. She said
Chiedozie left her house on Monday with the intention of going to school
to resume. She however returned home and found his phone, the money she
gave him and also his school documents at home. When she called the
school to find out if he was there, she was informed he was not in
school.
“After paying the necessary fees, I begged
his former lesson teacher to help me take him to the school since I was
busy. The teacher had previously taken him to the school for
registration on two occasions and December 4 was when he was supposed to
resume in the university finally. I had told the teacher that he would
help us to take him to the school and he said there was no problem.“On
Monday night when I got back from work, I told Chiedozie to get his
things ready that he would be going to school the next morning with his
teacher. He asked me the time the teacher would be coming and I told him
to get ready by 7am.“He had been at home all this while and he
usually slept all day and watched TV at night; so, that night, I
discovered that he was not sleeping as usual and I told him to go and
sleep because of the journey he would embark on in the morning.”
When
I wanted to do a change of course for him, he said he had lost his SIM
card, so I gave him my second SIM so that he could put it in a phone
that had been at home all this while. That morning, I gave him the SIM
and the sum of N10,000 to spend for the week; I also gave him extra
N15,000 wrapped in a paper to give to the teacher so that he would use
it to buy provisions for him when they get to Enugu since I didn’t have
the time to buy them for him.
“Around 7.30am, I left
the house and I told him to wait for his teacher; his other siblings
were also at home that day. At about 9.20am, the teacher called me that
he was in our house waiting for my son and that his siblings told him
that Chiedozie had gone out with his bag. I was surprised because I told
him to wait for the teacher; so, the teacher suggested that he would go
and check the two parks that they use whenever they travelled together.
One is the Peace Park and the second one is the ITC. He went to the two
parks and called me that he did not see him.”
Panicking,
she called the school and was told he had not reported. When she got
home, she found the money she gave to him and his phone with all his
call logs deleted.
“The next day, I called the school
again and they said they had not seen him, so I went to the police
station and the fire service station in Owerri and the person I met at
the police station just took my statement and said the officer who would
handle the case would call me in the morning. A woman called me on
Thursday morning and I went to the station to see her and I gave her his
passport photograph and wrote a statement on what happened.The
next day, I was asked to bring N15,000 so as to enable them send signals
to all the police stations in the state. I noticed that someone had
used a sharp object to tear my children’s window a few weeks before
Chiedozie went missing and the children alerted me to it. I believed he
was manipulated out of the house even though I used to quarrel with him
if he did something wrong. He didn’t have any friend, but two months
ago, he told me that he closed his Facebook account, and I asked him
why, but he said nothing, but I think some people were disturbing him
there. I think he was manipulated out of the house because of the recent
occurrence in my house of people flashing light into my room and my
children’s room net being torn with a sharp object.”
The matter has since been reported to the police.
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