There was confusion in a community in Abeokuta on Sunday as residents discovered that an 18 months old baby mysteriously went missing during a naming ceremony.
Confusion and anxiety, enveloped the Inuosegba community in Abeokuta as an 18 months baby identified as Hezekiah Opeyemi Ogundele was reportedly missing in a naming ceremony on Sunday.
While the event was to commence, the baby was discovered to have disappeared mysteriously. The naming ceremony was put on hold indefinitely while apprehensive guests and residents began to comb surrounding bushes and home, searching for the baby.
26-years old Fashion designer, Elizabeth Ogundele, The who is the mother of the missing baby, said her elder sister gave birth and was preparing to the naming when it was discovered that her son had disappeared.
In the course of the search, they discovered that a building near the venue of naming, severed wrist watch and school children’s items were found in a suspicious building within the neighbourhood, forcing the residents to place the property under surveilance as there was no one inside at the time.
It was gathered that later in the day, a commercial motorcycle operator visited the building in the wee hour and was arrested and handed over to the Police at the Lafenwa Divisional Police Headquarters, Abeokuta.
A visit to the building believed to be owned by one Chief Olasile Ifayemi, by reporters, witnessed a vandalized seven room bungalow and desecrated his shrine inside and over a dozen pots of fetish objects.
Operatives the Speacial Anti – Robbery Squad (SARS), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) were sighted making frantic effort to control the enraged crowd bent on bringing down the building.