Abducted 16-year-old girl needs deliverance –Dad

Rosemary, Nwosu, Henrietta and Otobo

The 16-year-old ‘maid,’ Henrietta Odili, arrested with the abductor of the Orekoya kids has been reunited with her family. Henrietta was allegedly abducted by Fumilayo Adeyemi and her family of kidnappers and turned to a housemaid at their residence at Akowonjo area of Lagos State. 

But at the reunion at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters at Ikeja yesterday, Henrietta’s parents said the girl would go for deliverance owing to where she resided while in Lagos.
Her father, Anthony Otobo, a Chartered Accountant, said the spiritual exercise became necessary because of what the girl had passed through in the hands of her abductors who seized her phone, making it impossible for the girl to communicate with her parents. Henrietta ran away from her home in Benin and headed for Lagos, where she worked as a maid for Adeyemi and other members of the family. When she arrived, the family confiscated her phone.
When it was eventually returned, the SIM card had been removed. Henrietta recounted: “They took my phone, saying they needed to know me better for a month before they would return it. After two months, they gave me back the phone, but they had removed the SIM. “One of the women always goes out with me. There are two wives and two brothers in the flat. There was never any opportunity to make a simple phone call to my family.”
When detectives from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) picked Adeyemi, Henrietta was with her, thus began her reunion with her parents. Yesterday, Otobo and his wife, Rosemary, thanked the police for their excellent work in finding Henrietta and in rescuing the Orekoya kids. Otobo, a father of five, said he discovered that his last child, Henrietta, was missing on November 12, 2014 after her brother alerted them that she was not in the apartment. He said: “We rented a duplex and we stay upstairs, while they are downstairs. Her brother came to tell us around 4am that Henrietta was not in the house. Her mother and I came out. We discovered that four doors leading to the gates were opened.
“I took one of my guards and we drove round. But we could not find her. We waited throughout that day, hoping she would come back, but unfortunately she did not.” Otobo explained that on November 13, they went to the police to lodge a complaint that she was missing.
Henrietta’s pictures were circulated and even flashed on television stations in Edo State for three days. He added: “We waited again, but there was no news. So we started waiting upon the Lord, knowing that one day we would see her.” On April 17, Otobo saw his daughter’s picture in one the national dailies. He immediately alerted the police in the state. Two policemen from Edo State came to Lagos. Asked why his daughter ran away from home, Otobo said: “I don’t really know.”