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10-year-old Promise Udeh on Thursday, was rescued by the Ogun Police Command. She was found chained in a house at Saraki, Adigbe area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, after neighbours alerted the police.
This is coming barely a week after a nine-year-old boy, Korede Taiwo, chained by his father, Francis, for over a month for stealing, was rescued in the same state. Promise has been moved to the welfare home, Stella Obasanjo Children’s Home, Ibara GRA, Abeokuta.
The acting Ogun State Police P.R.O, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said Promise was chained by her aunt, Chiamaka Okafor, who accused her of stealing N4,000. She was said to have been chained for two days before she was rescued.
Chiamaka is currently on the run but her husband, Sunday Okafor has been arrested. Promise was allegedly starved for the two days before she was rescued. She was first chained to burglar-proof iron in the Okafors’ kitchen, before she was later transferred to a room in the uncompleted part of the boys 'quarters.
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