Mother becomes alarmed after her 32-year-old daughter vanishes in Kogi

The mother of Hamidat Abdulrafiu, 32, of Okenne, Kogi State, has lamented the disappearance of her daughter. On June 18, 2024, Hamidat left home to meet a customer in Lokoja.

Mrs. Ramot Yakubu, Hamidat’s mother, revealed this to City Round and said that since June 19, her daughter’s phone has not been reachable.

Mrs. Ramot mentioned that although Hamidat was tracked down in Abuja, there was no information of a kidnapping or accident since despite reporting at the police station, all attempts to recover her had been unsuccessful.

She said, “Hamidat is a businesswoman who sells unisex clothes and she normally travels to Lokoja to go and meet her customers and collect money for goods they might bought in credit.

“When she got to Lokoja, she called me that she was there. And it was later in the morning on the 19th when I started chatting with her and there was no response that I sensed trouble. I dialled her number and it was not reachable throughout that day up till now.

“I have another daughter at the Federal University, Lokoja, so I called her if her elder sister was at her place but she said no.”

People in the compound reported she left on the 18th at around 8:00 pm after receiving a call, and she said her buddy who stayed with her returned from Abuja on the 19th as well.

Her mother claims that the residents of the property claimed she didn’t even consume the meals she had instructed someone to get for her. They observed the clothes she had on when she arrived, the body cream, bath soap, and the food that had been purchased for her, all of which she left undisturbed.

Mrs. Yakubu said that there had not been any calls from anywhere threatening or demanding a ransom.

A police officer from Adavi Police Divisional Headquarters in the state, John Stephen, confirmed the incident, stating, “According to her family, nothing of such has not happened where she would go for days without returning home.”