Ex-Landlady Kidnaps Ex-Tenant's Twins

The police at Abayi Division, Abia State, is 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 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 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-landlady was still in the compound.

A source close to the Nwaeze family said: "When she finally returned to their room, the twin babies 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-landlady had the babies.

An Afor Ule market trader, Abayi Aba, said nobody suspected that Chioma abducted the babies because 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.