Crime: Landlady Abducts Former-Tenant’s Twins, Demands Ransom

Landlady has repaid her former tenants' love in a strange and
painful manner, she abducted their twins.
The police at Abayi Division, Abia State, are holding a
woman identified simply as Chioma for allegedly abducting
the twin boys of her ex-tenants Mr. and Mrs. Okwudili
Nwaeze.
It was gathered that Chioma visited her former tenants' home
to, according to sources, exchange pleasantries with them."
Mrs. Nwaeze, who was on her way to the bathroom,
apparently uncomfortable with the visitor, changed her mind
and waited until she (Chioma) left the compound.
Mrs. Nwaeze was said to have gone back to the bathroom,
leaving her twins (James and John) inside their room,
unknown to her that her ex-land lady was still in the
compound.
A source close to the Nwaeze family said: "When she finally
returned to their room, the twin babies (James and John) had
disappeared. It was at this point that she started to raise alarm.
In agony, she began a desperate search for her babies.
Neighbours who had seen Chioma carry the babies told Mrs
Nwaeze that her ex-tenant had the babies.
An Afor Ule market trader, Abayi Aba, said nobody suspected
that Chioma abducted the babies beacuse she had lived with
the children's parents before the incident.
She said Chioma, on getting to Afor Ule junction, flagged
down a commercial tricycle driver, who took her and the kids
away.
An unconfirmed report said Chioma had, at the initial contact
with the children's family, demanded a ransom of about
N10million, which the family told her they did not have.
On how the ex-tenant was apprehended by the police, sources
said she was caught by some people selling wares at the Afor
Ule market. They spotted her while she was attempting to
drop the children on the main road.
They took her to the Abayi Divisional police station where the
Nwaezes had reported that their children were missing.
When contacted, the Abia State Police PPRO, Geoffrey
Ogbonna, said he was yet to be briefed on the incident.
But, a police source at the Abayi Police Division confirmed
the incident, adding that the police were still investigating the
matter.