Ifeoma Jesinta, a five-year-old child, was abducted and trafficked from Ondo State to Delta State. Her family has expressed concern about a possible cover-up, which has given the case a new dimension.
In a plea to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), the victim’s parents, through their attorney Tope Temokun, accused the Ondo Police Command of compromising on the investigation.
The family claimed that the Command had been protecting the main suspect in the crime in the petition, which was copied to the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, or NAPTIP, and Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, among others.
Temokun revealed that the primary suspect, who runs a well-known restaurant in Akure and was the last person spotted with the child, is still at large while the innocent parents of the kidnapped child were detained and placed under remand.
According to the attorney, a police press release regarding the case, dated September 25, 2025, and referencing reference number AZ:5280/ONS/PPRO/VOL.1/298, indicated a “deliberate distortion of facts.”
The human rights attorney claimed that the statement suppressed important investigative leads, omitted important material, misrepresented the timeline of events, and withheld the identities of those the investigation had previously named as guilty.
“Most glaringly, the official police press release dated 25th September, 2025 (Ref. No. AZ: 5280 / ONS/ PPRO/ VOL.1/ 298) falsely represents the identity and parentage of the missing child.
“The child, Ifeoma Jesinta, is not the child of Sunday Kingsley and Sunday Happiness but the biological daughter of Mrs Nneka Onah and stepdaughter of Mr Ifeanyi Onah, as established in the petition and corroborated by witnesses. This deliberate misrepresentation erases the true complainants from the narrative, thereby concealing critical leads in the investigation.
“The omission of Mrs Happiness Sunday in connection with the crime, as the last person in whose custody the child was seen before disappearance, and Vivian Ngozi, mentioned as the principal accessory within the state, further confirms deliberate suppression of facts by the Ondo State Police Command.”
The petition was in response to the Ondo State Police Command’s earlier allegation that Sunday Kingsley of Alagbaka Extension, Akure, reported that Jesinta had disappeared. As a result, the case was charged before the Family Magistrate Court, and the child’s mother, Nneka Onah, was placed under remand at the Ondo Correctional Center.
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