Nigerian police in frantic search for abducted girl

The Nigerian police in Enugu State has launched an operation to rescue a six-year-old girl, who was kidnapped more than a week ago.

The public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu said  the command was “on top of the situation,” adding: “we are being careful so that the hoodlums would not know our strategy for the rescue operation.”

According to the News Agency Of Nigeria,   the kidnappers had not contacted the family of the girl or demanded any ransom for her release.

The girl, a banker’s daughter, was abducted at their Government Reserved Area (GRA) home by unknown gunmen on May 20. 

The girl’s mother, Mrs Ebele Akilo, said that two armed men broke into her house at River Lane, GRA, Enugu at about 2 a.m. on May 20, entering through the toilet window,and demanded  money and trinkets.

She told them that she did not have any as her trinkets had been stolen.Akilo said they later asked for her children and she showed them where the four of them were sleeping.She said the kidnappers quickly took her second daughter and her phone, leaving the house on a motorcycle.