18-Month-Old Baby Mysteriously Disappears During Naming Ceremony In Ogun

Anxiety enveloped Inuosegba community in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, as residents made shocking discoveries while searching for a missing baby.

The building where shocking discoveries were made.

The Nation reports that the 18-month-old baby identified as Hezekiah Opeyemi Ogundele was taken by his brother to a christening ceremony at Inuosegba community around 4pm on July 26, Sunday. However, while the ceremony was to commence the baby mysteriously disappeared.

Apprehensive guests and residents began to comb surrounding bushes and houses, searching for the baby.

In a suspicious building near the venue of naming, the shocked residents found severed human wrist and school children’s items. As there was no one inside at that time, the residents placed the property under surveillance.

Later that day, a commercial motorcycle operator visited the building in the wee hour. He was reportedly apprehended and handed over to the Lafenwa divisional police headquarters in Abeokuta.

When reporters visited the building believed to be owned by one Chief Olasile Ifayemi, operatives of the special anti-robbery squad, the Nigeria security and civil defence corps, were sighted there. They were making frantic effort to control the furious crowd bent on bringing down the building.