{"id":58546,"date":"2024-12-27T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58546"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:26:34","slug":"family-raises-alarm-over-missing-7-year-old-in-ogun-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/27\/family-raises-alarm-over-missing-7-year-old-in-ogun-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Raises Alarm Over Missing 7-Year-Old in Ogun State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The family of seven-year-old Mercy Akande has expressed concern over her disappearance in the Sango Ota area of Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy was last seen on Monday, December 23, near her mother\u2019s Point of Sale (POS) terminal in the community.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, a regular male customer, familiar to Mercy\u2019s family, bought food for himself and the child before sending her on an errand to purchase a sachet of water.<\/p>\n<p>Upon her return, he intercepted Mercy near the shop. Moments later, both were gone.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to locate the man have been unsuccessful, as his phone line is unreachable.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy\u2019s cousin, Jude, disclosed that the suspect, a frequent visitor to the shop, did not reside in the area, raising suspicions.<\/p>\n<p>The family immediately reported the case to the Sango Ota police, but they allege poor handling of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Jude claimed the police demanded N10,000 to file a formal report and N30,000 to track the suspect\u2019s phone number, adding to the family\u2019s financial strain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve paid N8,000 for the statement and N2,000 for photos but are struggling with the affidavit due to the holidays,\u201d he shared in a post on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, has yet to comment on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the family and local residents are appealing for assistance, fearing the girl may have been abducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu The family of seven-year-old Mercy Akande has expressed concern over her disappearance in the Sango Ota area of Ogun State. Mercy was last seen on Monday, December 23, near her mother\u2019s Point of Sale (POS) terminal in the community. According to eyewitnesses, a regular male customer, familiar to Mercy\u2019s family, bought food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58548,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58546\/revisions\/58548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}