“Stop Stealing Our Children”:  Heart Wrenching Story Of Agbarho Women

By Charles Igbo

The women of Agbarho in Ugheli North, Delta State,  are in pains. Their children  are being stolen. Minors, between the ages of three and 10 years. At the last count, the women lamented, 26 of their children have vanished into thin air. Their families are miserable and in deep pains. They are grieving. They don’t know whose child will be next. Or how and when.

So, they have taken to the streets to bemoan their fate. To weep for their lost children whose fate they hardly know. Dead or alive?

Placards in hand, the women marched through the streets to draw attention to their plight.

“Stop Stealing Our Children” “We Want Justice”, the placards read.

The women strongly suspect that their abducted children may, perhaps, have been trafficked to outside Nigeria, or worse, especially, in this age of ritual killings and harvesting of human organs.

In an interview with News Central TV, their Spokesperson, Madam Elizabeth, said the attention of the State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has been drawn to their sad situation. The Governor reacted by sending the Local Government Chairman who led others to meet with the Community’s Traditional Ruler, and the women.  Still, no dice.

The women also said they had reported to the Police but nothing has been done so far. They said the police only told them they would be informed if anyone brought back a

child”. But till date, no child, out of the 26, has been brought back.

She disclosed that their children began to disappear since March. She revealed: “One person would cry today, and before we finish looking for that child, another would

go missing,”

She then told a heartbreaking story of the disappearance of twin babies.

According to her:

“Their mom was cooking and went to put fish in her soup, and before she returned, the two children who were playing had

been taken.”

Now, the community and its women are asking the Government and Security Agencies to come their aid, get their children and stop further child-stealing.