I TOOK MY CHILD FOR SPIRITUAL HEALINGS, BUT CHURCH ORGANISES HIS KIDNAP, MOTHER OF MISSING BOY ALLEGES

The woman lamented that, she took the child, Gold Kolawole to the church for spiritual healings, but ended up losing him to the same church, stressing that she is not finding it easy to cope without her son.

“We have searched everywhere and we are still searching, we are yet to find my boy. I suspect someone that I thought was just an ordinary member, but I realised he was so close to the pastor. He was snapping my baby’s pictures and was asking about my husband, wanting to know who my husband is’.

‘He was just a church member. When the situation happened, the same guy was the first person that saw me where I went to drop my child. When I realised that the child was kidnapped, this guy was the first to show concern’.

“During the church service, the guy was sitting behind me in the church hall. The period the incident happened, the pastor declared a 30 minutes prayer. He said whoever did not close his eyes during the prayer will die before December. I also realised that the guy at the time was no longer behind my back. The pastor also was strolling behind me for like 30 minutes. Immediately after the prayer I got to realise that my child was missing’.

“While I was looking for my child, this guy was the one showing the caring attitude, asking what has my husband done, and trying to know every step that had been taken. He was there from then till the night. Another suspicious thing I noticed was that that same Sunday night while the pastor was in his office, it was only this man that was walking towards that office intermittently fiddling with his phone’.

“While we were invited to the Anti-kidnapping office, this same guy came to the place with the pastor’s car. While we went to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, the same guy was also there. We got to realise that he is so close to the pastor’.

“Right now, once we started suspecting him we can’t even find the guy anymore. As the matter proceeded, the church and the pastor presented another person entirely as the (suspect). The guy I am talking about is well known to me. I knew him for long, even my aunty and my sister –in-law knew him very well, especially the way he showed caring attitude’.

“Another thing that raised my suspicion was that there are 14 ushers in the children’s section, comprising 12 female and two males. While we were at the anti-kidnapping office only a man (was) among them. At the Deji of Akure’s palace, only two men came. When we went to the Deputy Commissioner of Police’s office, only two other workers were brought, not the entire 14 workers. The last time the Kabiyesi (king) sent for us, they came with three men with the senior workers’.

“He kept changing them. At the Commissioner of Police’s office, he came with six men. At every of the meetings he made sure that only two of the workers were consistent and they are the ones we are suspecting are directly involved. One of them was the HOD (head of department) that asked me to drop my child at the section and asked me to register the child and the other one who actually registered the child, even though I had initially argued that my child was still too small to go there’.

‘The pastor himself also failed to show up in most of the invitations during the period. I am convinced that I will find my child, I know I will find him. Whoever has taken the child should return my child, and that is all I am asking.”