Woman accuses lover of abducting her 7-yr-old son

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After calling it quits with her husband, Lucy Omonide began a sizzling romance with Chidi Ibeh. She went with all she had into the relationship, including her five kids. Now, her last child has disappeared into thin air. Her neighbours say they saw the boy with Ibeh. Unfortunately, Ibeh too is nowhere to be found.

A mother, Ms. Lucy Omonide, has accused her new found lover of kidnapping her seven-year-old son, Immaculate. Omonide had been separated from her husband since 2008. They had five children together. Omonide lives with her five children in one room apartment at No 16b, Olasumbo Street, Aromire area, Iyana-Iyesi in Sango Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, since she broke up with her former husband.

Thirty eight years old Omonibe is a petrol attendant at a filling station along Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, has been taking full responsibility of the five children since leaving her husband. Six years after she separated from her husband, Omonide met another man, a divorcee too, who reportedly promised to marry her and be father to her five children.

It was reported that Omonide's romance with the man, Chidi Ibeh, started in January 2013. Chidi lives some blocks away from Ominide at Iyana-Iyesi area of Ogun State. Ibeh is a dealer in petroleum products and he reportedly gets his supply from Omonide's company, apparently where the two of them met. It was reported that at the time Omonide and Ibeh met, the latter had done a lot to impress his new found woman of his love for her.

He is said to have been responsible for the upkeep of Omonide and her five children. Sadly, their relationship hit the rocks barely five months after the two lovers expressed their desire to be husband and wife. It was reported that within the short period of the romance, the man and Omonide's children were inseparable.

The children, it was reported, accepted Ibeh as their father and showed him all the love required. He had reportedly shown particular interest in Immaculate, Omonide's seven-year-old son. It is reported that on many occasions, Ibeh would take Immaculate to his house and make the young boy stay with him all day.

It was also reported that Immaculate had passed the night with Ibeh on three occasions. With this affinity between Ibeh and Omonide's the former reportedly has an unrestricted access to his lover's home and all that she had including her children.

It was reported that at the start of May 2013, Ibeh informed Omonide that he was embarking on a journey to his village in the eastern part of the country and that he would not be back until middle of May. Ibeh had reportedly prevailed on Omonide to come look after his business for him while he was away. The woman gladly obliged, leaving her work and children to run Ibeh's business for him.

But on the third day after Ibeh had left home, he reportedly surfaced at Omonide's house on a Saturday, May 18, 2013, but this time, he reportedly came with a friend who parked a car some blocks away from Omonide's house. Immediately he alighted from his friend's car, Ibeh reportedly went straight for his lover's room and called out Immaculate allegedly urging him to come with him. It was reportedly that Omonide's compound was always deserted at that time of the day except on Sundays.

It was reported that while Ibeh and Immaculte were leaving the compound, a neighbour walked in from his shop at Sango market apparently to pick an item for her customer. And because of the relationship between the boy and the man, the neighbour was said not to have inquired where Ibeh was taking the seven year-old boy.

That was the last since of the duo until today. When night came and Immaculate was nowhere to be found, his siblings reportedly put a call through to their mother who claimed the boy was not with her and that she left him with them at home before she set out that morning. Disturbed by the news from home Omonide left all that she was doing at Ibeh's shop and came home to confirm the whereabouts of her last born. When the woman neighbour who reportedly saw Ibeh walked out of the compound with the boy returned from the market, she affirmed that she saw Immaculate and his mother's lover walk out the house and enter a car.

It was reported that when Omonide called on Ibeh's mobile telephone to ask where her son was, Ibeh, angrily replied that he had been in the village for three days and she was asking of her son's whereabouts from him. The woman went wild afterwards.

All calls to Ibeh's mobile telephone lines afterwards were futile as his lines were reportedly switched off. Speaking with reporters, the distraught mother said: "I do not even know where to look for him. I just know that he is from Imo State.

But my neighbour confirmed that she saw him (Ibeh) come into the house and came out with my son." Efforts to get the neighbour to talk was futile as her husband claimed the life of his wife might be in danger after testifying that she saw the man take the young boy away.

On his part, Francis, Omonide's first child, said that his mother's lover was also seen with his brother by some other people in the neighbourhood. "My friend (names withheld) told me that Imma greeted him from the car when he was being driven away. I am sure that Imma must have gone with the man because he (Immaculate) likes being around him," he said.

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