Suspected female kidnapper’s mentally unstable – Husband

Indications emerged Tuesday that eldest of two women arrested by police operatives on Monday for alleged kidnapping, Eno Effiong has mental disorder.

The Nation learnt that her husband and father of the three children she was suspected to have kidnapped, Effiong, was located by officials  of the Railway Police Command at AirForce Base, Ikeja, Monday night.

His location confirmed the address given by their four-

year-old daughter, Happiness Effiong, who had insisted that the woman was not her mother and that her home was at the AirForce Base.

It was gathered that policemen were dispatched on Monday evening to trace all the addresses given by the woman and the infant, before the man was located.

Eno, alongside her teenaged sister, were arrested after passengers of a Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) ‎vehicle suspected she must have stolen the kids she had with her.

The passengers’ suspicion was sequel to the continuous cry of a four-month old baby, (one of the three‎), with Eno refusing to breastfeed her.

Worried that she turned down all request to breastfeed the baby and could not cajole her, the passengers had alerted the police at Iddo, who arrested both women.

‎At the station, Happiness who gave the second girl’s name as Pateince Effiong, two years, had denied severally that Eno was her mother.

The child’s denial as well as the inconsistencies in the story of the woman and the teenager, prompted police detectives to trace all addresses mentioned by the parties.

Consequently, a police source who confirmed to The Nation that Effiong has been located, said the man had no idea his ‘sick’ wife took the children away.

He said: “The man was brought to the command and the little girl‎ identified him as her father, Effiong. He was the one who told us that the woman has psychiatric problem and has been kept at a mental home.

“They live at the Air Force Base. The husband said he did not know that the woman had taken the kids away and he did not also know where they were going.”

‎Several calls to the state Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni were not answered, neither did he reply to a text message sent to his phone.

When contacted, the spokesperson for the AirForce in Lagos, Squadron Leader‎ Obi Abasi said he has no idea and was yet to confirm