Suspected hoodlums on Saturday, May 4, abducted a four month old baby in Enen-Atai village, Itu local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Narrating his ordeal on Monday, the father of the abducted infant, Udeme Eyo, told our correspondent that the child was abducted at gunpoint in his residence at about 3:00 am.
He said, 'I was half asleep when I heard the bang on the door, I jumped out of my bed but the door was pulled to the ground with force. 'Two strange men entered and demanded for my son. As a man I tried to stop them but they brought out guns and machetes, I shrugged. 'They seized the child from my wife who was screaming, kicked her aside and took away the baby. When I rushed out to raise alarm to alert my neighbors, I saw them zoom off in a car that was parked about a pole away.
' The village head of the community, Prof Efanga Usua, who spoke on the development, expressed fear and disappointment, saying that such occurrence was strange in the area until recently when a mentally deranged woman was dispossessed of her baby by unknown bike men. He said plans are underway to call a meeting of the East Itam Northern Traditional Rulers to find a lasting solution to such occurrences.
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