How fake tenants stole my kids

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For Madam Bimbo Olalekan, 23,  it is   exactly one year she has been living in pains and sorrow since her two children  were stolen away from her house.



     .......No photos of the kids
……Tenants’ names  and address unknown

    HOW IT HAPPENED

For  Mrs.Bimbo  Olalekan   cursed be  the day she met an enemy who pretended to be a friend.For the past one year she has been looking at every chikld  allowed a stranger   a strange couple  pretended to have come to rent a room apartment  after paying for one year ,stayed for six days and  later disappeared with her   two kids under the pretext  that she wanted to buy biscuit for them. Up till the moment  the kids have not been found.
Bimbo  who is the mother of the kids- Blessing and Ayomide   was living  with her children at 27, Okedogbon  Street , Owo, narrated her story  ''a man who claimed   to have come  from Delta state came to rent a room  in our  building at 27 , Okedogbon Street, Owo  have destroyed my life''.
She continued   ''When the man first came  my  mother refused to give the  man the room as she complained of not wanting to have a Bachelor in the house as she preferred married and responsible man to a Bachelor.   . However, the man went to bring   a woman he claimed to be his wife .
''We asked them to pay 2,000 naira per month for the one room  but they begged for 1,500 naira and after much pleadings my mother  conceded  and  they paid for one year and   which  is 18,000 naira. The  money was  delivered to my uncle who had no time to give them a receipt for he was preparing for his baby’s naming ceremony.’’, she said
Bimbo  continued ''On that fateful morning of  January 30, 2018  I was washing  my children's  clothes at the backyard while my daughter, the  older one was  sleeping in the room and the second one baby was crying.Since the woman said she is an hairdresser I asked her to help me do my daughter’s hair .She carried the  baby that  was crying  and put her on her back . Later the one that slept woke up and she held her saying she was going to buy things for them .That was all'', as she said this she burst into tears again.
asked when she realised  the disappearance of the woman, she said ''It was when I finished washing and asked after  the woman  that we knew what happened,  we ran inside to search for them but only saw the bag filled with used  carpets’’.
The woman  said ‘’ we were shocked that such a thing could happen .We did not know their names and we didn’t ask. All what we know is that they told us they were from  Delta  State.''
According to her mother , after reporting at the Police station, they  also visited    spiritualists  to seek for divine intervention.''I never thought they could be devilish and evil. It was when we didn’t see these children  that we raised alarm .I went to the police station to report the case at the Police headquarter , Ijebu -Owo  but I was detained , saying I was the first suspect since I did not come to report early and I spent one night at the station,Bimbo said .

NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE VICTIMS AND THE SUSPECTS

What baffled many is that the Bimbo  did not  not have the   photographs of  her  kids  and of the tenants too. When asked  she said ‘ ''I have only the picture of the older one , and that is an old picture  , I don’t have their pictures.
Bimbo’s mother has been guiding her daughter to avoid her from committing suicide , she said  ''I go out with her even when going to the toilet, the way she has been acting since the incidence did not let us let us leave her alone .We heard over the news that a couple was arrested with two kids but when we read the paper it is not our own case.

For Bimbo she has no other person to console her as she receives  heap of blames  from all nooks and crannies for being careless about her two lovely kids who were stolen under her care .
The clothes she claimed she was  washing  have become useless as the kids to wear them are gone, and it could be forever except God intervenes
She no longer live at Okedogbon again as she has  relocated to her granny's house and she  hardly eat these days , the mother said, adding ''she could run mad if she is not properly taken care of that is why I  am staying with her  .Since the incidence Bimbo  has been taken away from where the incident happened and now living with her mother and grandmother who are monitoring her movement as she has changed from the that joyful mother of two kids to a childless mother  now seeking the face of God''.
When our reporter  met her she was sandwiched  in-between her mother, grandmother and  her aunt sobbing, suddenly,  she glanced at  the ceiling fan   and  cried  ‘’Sorrow  should be my second name .Where will I see these kids again?’’ as she said this she went outside to look at those passing bye  and came back  to sit on the sofa again .Many times she would look askance and laugh  wildly then walked  round the compound calling the names of her stolen children. Last Saturday she ran to the  Post office to see the vendor and asked whether the  retrieved kids from a Catholic Priest were her own. This has been the way Mrs .Bimbo Lekan whose two children [Blessing and Ayomide Lekan] whose  ages are  two years and 8months and the younger one 8months  were stolen before her nose on that fateful day of January 30,this year.