Two Missing After visiting online girlfriend in Calabar

Emmanuel Alfred

Reports have it that Two young men have gone missing after visiting online girlfriend in Calabar.

The young men identified as Henry Agbo and Wisdom Ofri are both staff of a logistic company located along the Murtala Mohammed highway in Calabar.

They were reported to have visited a lady who they met through a social networking site, facebook. Sources say they were invited after a series of chat to the lady’s residence at Ekorinim 2 where they could meet.

One of their friends identified as Uforo, who was lucky not to have followed them said “they have been chatting through Facebook Messenger with the girl and that day I was supposed to follow them to Ekorinim 2, where the girl asked us to come and see her, but they left before I came out”.

The two young men hail from Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State, while Uforo is from Akwa Ibom State.

They then took a tricycle to meet with the said lady. “That was the last time we heard about them. Because after awhile, we kept trying their numbers, but it has remained switched off. They have also not returned home since then“. The incident happened on Saturday, April 24, 2022.

Another source who described the boys as hardworking young men said “at first we thought it was a case of kidnap, but we have been to all the Police Stations in the State Capital, including the Anti Cultism/Kidnapping squad at Cultural Centre, Zone 6 and even the Police State Headquarters and have not found them.

Attempts to reach the police Spokesperson in the State, Irene Ugbo was unsuccessful as she did not pick her calls. A short message sent to her was also not replied.

Incidents of kidnapping and ritual killings have covertly continued to remain rampant within the State Capital and its environs.