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SaharaReporters learnt that aged 14, Goodness Ibrahim was said to have gone out to buy food for her younger siblings when she went missing.
The teenage daughter of Edith Uduma, the policewoman who was dismissed by the Edo State police command for reporting a rape case involving her male colleague, has gone missing.
SaharaReporters learnt that aged 14, Goodness Ibrahim was said to have gone out to buy food for her younger siblings when she went missing.
She has been missing for at least three days, SaharaReporters was told.
“She went out to buy what her younger ones would eat and never came back since three days now,” Edith’s eldest daughter, whose name is held in this report for security purposes, told SaharaReporters.
“The Area Commander of the Auchi command came to our house early last week threatening that if we did not provide our mother, allowing her to come for trials in court, he would not allow us rest. Soon afterwards, our sister went missing. Even as children, we are suffering, please they shouldn’t do this to us,” she said amid tears on the phone.
The development comes amid Uduma’s controversial dismissal by the police authorities in Edo State.
Edith is being accused of failing to report a rape case said to be involving another policeman, Abraham, but instead was seeking a bribe.
She has denied this allegation, and multiple witnesses have corroborated her claim in chats with SaharaReporters.
Multiple witnesses have also negated the police account that she did not inform police authorities of the development.
The new twist in the development comes amid the detention of her husband, who is accused of being an accomplice in the alleged seeking of bribe and alleged failure to report the rape case involving Abraham.
Goodness Ibrahim, SaharaReporters gathered, had reached out to the Area commander, Edo South Police division, on the phone before going missing.
In the conversation obtained by SaharaReporters, she had inquired why her parents were being treated hardly by the police authorities.
In the conversation, the Area Commander had told her he had no hand in the ordeal of her parents, noting that Edith’s husband, had been cleared at the level of orderly room trial and it was surprising that he was later detained and demoted in rank.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that the now missing, Edith’s daughter, was asking about the whereabouts of her father from the Area Commander of Edo South Ibie, saying she had not heard anything about him since he was detained and placed incommunicado.
The Area Commander had responded that Inspector Ibrahim Muhammad was currently detained at the state police command in Benin.
“He is with them there, he will soon come,” he had said.
When Edith’s daughter, in a crying voice, said she didn’t want anything to happen to her father because he was innocent in the matter, the Area Commander responded, “Is it me he has a problem with, so what concerns me? I did not detain your father. Don’t lie against me. I was following instructions from above.”
Edith’s daughter had said, “I know my father has nobody from the authorities to fight for him, but he has God. All the conspiracies you’re making will fail.”
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