Family still searching for bricklayer after three-month disappearance

Kofi Aita

The family of a Togolese bricklayer, Kofi Aita, has expressed anxiety that three months after he attended a programme along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, he is yet to return to his home.

Aita, who lived at Oke-Ira, Lagos Island was said to have attended the programme at the Deeper Life ground along the expressway in December 21, 2012 in company with his wife, four children and sister.

But when the programme ended, Aita was nowhere to be found.

A pastor of their local church, who gave his name his name simply as Pastor Moses told PUNCH Metro that the family members went their separate ways immediately they got to camp because women and children were housed separately within the camp.

He said, “Aita’s sister said she saw him in the morning of the third day of the programme. He was in company with some men who seemed to be his (Aita) friends. That moment was the last time any family member saw him.

“When the retreat ended on the fourth day, Aita’s family went home without him..

“They assumed that he had gone home ahead of them. It wasn’t until they got home and did not see him that they knew something was wrong.”

Aita’s family began to panic when he neither answered the calls placed to his telephone nor returned home.

“After his sister insisted that she saw Aita on the third day with some men, everyone started assuming that Aita must have left camp with the men.

“The problem now is no one knows who those men were. We have made reports at the Mowe Police Division but nothing has come up since then,” Moses said.

PUNCH Metro investigation showed that Aita left the camp without his telephone.

A source in Deeper Life Church said, “The bag containing his toiletries and clothes which he brought to camp was found where he left it. His phone was found in the same bag. Apparently he didn’t take his phone along, which is why no one was able to reach him.”

The Ogun State Command Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, however told PUNCH Metro that there was no report of the incident at the Mowe Police Division.

PUNCH Metro