Family searches for girl, 13, who eloped with lover

I was as shocked as you are now when I read the story. That a girl in Nigeria could elope with a lover. Phew! It beats my imagination. The world has truly turned upside down. I tell you, the western world and culture is rudely encroaching into her lives. Or could she had been jazzed and kidnapped? Nothing wey no fit happen for Naija!

The 13-year-old girl is identified as Chikwuo Ezennia.

 Punch Newspaper reported that Ezennia, a Basic 4 pupil, came to Lagos from Nneni Village in the Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State to spend her holiday with her relatives.

The girl, however, fled her relatives’ apartment on Ishola Bello Close, Iyalla Street, Alausa, Lagos, in the afternoon of Thursday, November 20, when the family had gone out.

It was gathered that when the girl’s aunt, Mrs. Ambrose Okolo, and her husband returned from work at about 6pm, Ezennia was nowhere to be found.

During the initial search for her, some neighbours told the Okolos that they saw the teenager walking away with a man in the afternoon.

Ezennia told neighbours that her aunt maltreated her and had travelled away for a week. Hence, she would be staying with a friend during that period.

. It was further learnt that Ezennia had a record of fleeing home to stay with men when she was in the village in Anambra.

Mrs. Okolo said, “Ezennia is just 13, but she looks big enough to be called a man’s wife. If you see her, you will think she is a lady. She just came from the village to spend some time with us and she is supposed to go back this December. But since that Thursday, we have yet to find her.

“The reason I suspect she may be with a lover is because of some recent developments. Just a week before that incident, I travelled to Benue for a programme, and she was alone with my children in the house. There is a phone that my children use which contains only my number and my husband’s.

“But when she fled home and we started the search, I picked up the phone and to my surprise, I saw a string of strange numbers.

“The children said Ezennia used the phone when I travelled.

“I wondered who she might have been calling since she is new in Lagos.”