Ibrahim Olawale, elder brother of a missing lady, Noimot, shares with GRACE EDEMA how the family tracked her location and uncovered the phone number of a fleeing suspected ritual killer from the hotel manager’s call logs, where she was last seen

How are you related to the missing person?

I’m a brother to Olawale Noimot. She is my parents’ third born. She is 30 years old. I work as a technician at the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company.

Is she married?

She’s a single mother of one.

What happened on the day she went missing?

On Saturday, 19th of July, around past 2 pm, I received a call from one of her neighbours. They had been trying to reach her on the phone, but someone else picked up and said she had an accident and was taken to a hospital in Ikeja, LASUTH.

On their way to the place, they kept calling her number. It rang, but at the gate of the hospital, it went off. They still went in and spoke with hospital staff. They checked all the emergency centres, wards, and even the mortuary, but she wasn’t there.

What did you do next?

We were told to go back to the general hospital to check again. On the way back, my sister and I decided to go and meet some of her neighbours and friends at their place in Maya, Ikorodu, where she had been staying.

They narrated the story to us. They said on Friday, the 18th of July, she left home with her friend for work. When they got to work, around 8:30 am, my sister said she was stepping out and would be back shortly. She told her friend she was going to Ejigbo to see someone and would return.

Did she return?

No. After a while, her friend called to ask where she was, and my sister repeated that she would soon return, but she never did. Her friend ended up sleeping in the hotel where they worked.

What happened the next morning?No, the woman gave over five to six different statements. She even claimed one Ola was the missing person’s boyfriend, but when we asked the manager, he said Ola only comes to drink occasionally.

Why wasn’t the suspect detained?

The manager had told police that she was the one who introduced the missing person to the apartment. That’s why they didn’t detain her, despite suspicions.

What’s your take on the police’s attitude, and what’s your appeal?

The police are not taking us seriously at all. I want to appeal to Nigerians and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police to please intervene in this case. We carried out most of the tracking ourselves—privately.

When we asked the police to help, they brought nothing to the table.

We are pleading with the authorities to thoroughly investigate this matter. They must find and arrest the Alfa so we can confirm whether the dismembered body found in his house belongs to our sister.

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