The state Police
Commissioner, Mr. Ene Okon, said the incident occurred on March 2, but was only
reported to the police by the family on Saturday, March 7.
Okon said the
police quickly arrested a relative of Jane living at Ebem-Ohafia who the
command planned to send with policemen to Port Harcourt to search for the
suspect.
He denied that the
Ebem-Ohafia DPO sent the couple and the suspect’s relative to Port Harcourt to
search for Jane without any letter or police operatives accompanying them.
The baby's
parents, Mr. Adam Imoh and Mrs. Ijeoma Imoh, said the baby was stolen from a
shop where the mother was working in her sister’s hairdressing salon.
Ijeoma said when
Jane visited the salon and saw her baby boy named Faith; she began to praise
Faith who she said was plump and handsome.
She said:
“Jane carried him and bought biscuits for him and later dropped him before
leaving the shop.
“She returned
later with babies’ clothes for him. Not long after, she carried Faith. After a
while, she said she wanted to pick her phone which she was charging in a nearby
shop.”
Ijeoma said at
that juncture, she unwittingly asked her daughter to accompany Jane to the shop
with Faith so that if the baby started to cry, she could bring him back.
She added that
after a few minutes, she began to feel the baby's absence so she went out to
look for Jane at the shop she said she was going to.
Ijeoma said that
on her way, she saw her daughter who accompanied Jane, returning on a
motorcycle.
She said: “I asked
her where Jane was and she told me that Jane had entered a car with my baby.
“At that point, I
ran off to the shop Jane said she was going to collect her phone from. At the
shop, I was told that Jane left the shop a few minutes earlier.
“I became
confused and we began running around to see if we could get her. Later that
evening, we went to the Ebem Ohafia Police Station to report the matter.”
On his part, the
baby’s father, Adam, said he and his wife had gone to Port Harcourt in search
of the woman after Ebem-Ohafia Police Station sent them there without
accompanying letter or a police operative.
He said they had
to report afresh at Eleme Police Station which mobilised for the search of
Jane.
According to him,
Jane has not been seen.
He said they only
saw Jane’s mother who said she did not know her whereabouts.
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