Imo State Police Command has disclosed the arrest of the landlord of an apartment where four children were abducted in Umuaka community in Njaba Local Council.
Imo Police Spokesperson, Henry Okoye, said the arrest of the landlord follows the missing of four-year-old Ugwuebu Dominion; four-year-old Jemine Divine; two-year-old Jemine Isaiah and two-year-old Ugwuegbu Success.
The children were allegedly kidnapped by two new female tenants, whose names or whereabouts were unknown to the landlord, caretaker or the agent, who brought the ladies to the apartment, on May 26, 2023.
Reports say that the yet-to-be-identified lady, on May 27, 2023, at about 10.00a.m., walked into the sitting room where the four boys and a girl were playing told their six-year-old sister, that she was taking her brothers out to buy them gifts for Children’s Day.