Must read: 300l Girl goes missing after leaving club with man

This story was originally posted  on The Nation, and wanted to generally share it because lots of girls can learn from this. It is a story of a 300level English Language student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Annabel Nzubechukwu Edeh, who hasn't been seen since she left an evening club with unknown man many weeks ago in Awka, Anambra state.

Annabel had opted to the night time club with friends on September 17th and whilst the band of girls willing to leave, Annabel shared with her friends she was needing money so would go house or apartment with a man she'd met at the club and would come back to school the next morning. This has been 6 weeks and Annabel hasn't been seen.

Read the total story as told my Oluchukwu Igwe, a 500l Chemical Engineering student of same school.

They were six girls, who went along to Lounge 24 Gaga, a nightclub in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on September 17. They're Calista, Uju, Lovelyn, Ada, Chika and Annabel. They are all friends and live close to each other. When they returned to their hostels the next morning, one – Annabel – couldn't be found.

Where's Annabel? This is the question classmates of Annabel Nzubechukwu Edeh couldn't answer. The 300-Level English Language and Literature student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) in Awka hasn't been seen anywhere, 43 days after she went along to the night time club with her friends.

Was she kidnapped? Is she dead? They're a few of the questions being asked by her distraught family unit members and friends. She's the only girl in a family group of three.  Annabel, 24, an indigenous of Enugu State, was last seen on Wednesday, September 17 evening, when she left her Paradise City Hostel in Iyiagu Estate, Awka.

When she was leaving the club, Annabel reportedly left at nighttime with a man she met at the club. Which was the last time she was seen.

Annabel's friend and hostel mate, who simply gave her name as Ifeoma, said after clubbing, girls decided to locate a spot to sleep before time for their hostels. But Annabel, she said, shared with her friends she wished to choose Mmiri, a man acquaintance, she met at the club. She was said to have told her friends that she was in need of money, which could have informed her decision to go completely with the guy.

When she didn't return the next morning, it was learnt that Ada and Chika called Annabel's phone but were disappointed to know a man voice claiming to have found the telephone on a lawn and asked the ‘owner' come for it. Ada and Chika, it was gathered, retrieved the telephone and contacted Annabel's elder brother, Ifeanyi, who reported the situation at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Awka.

CAMPUSLIFE learnt that Ada and Chika were detained for alleged complicity but were later released on bail.

When contacted on the telephone, it was learnt that Mmiri claimed Annabel left his house at 3:30am when she refused to enter his room.

But, following the conversation, Mmiri reportedly turned off his phone and stopped going to a well known bar, where he drinks along with his friends. He's nowhere to be found.

Our correspondent's efforts to consult with Annabel's friends she went along to the nightclub with were futile. They all declined to discuss the issue.

Annabel's roommate, Ukamaka, gave an account of what happened when she spoke to CAMPUSLIFE on telephone.
She said: “Annabel explained she would be clubbing that evening. Her friends, Ada and Chika, waited in the compound till they were joined by their other friends. I'd a premonition of the incident in a desire I'd the prior night. I informed her not to attend the club but she refused. When one other three girls arrived, each of them left together. When she didn't return the next day, I called her line but nobody picked. Later, a person claimed he found it.”

Asked describe the kind of person Annabel is, Ukamaka stated that her roommate is a great Christian and hardworking, saying Annabel is a great tailor. “I think Annabel is a victim of circumstance,” Ukamaka said.

Ifeanyi said his family remained devastated by the incident. “We're devastated at the moment. When I received the news headlines, I travelled from Onitsha to Awka to report the issue at the Police station. The matter continues to be being attended to at SCID and “B” Division. We've even gone spiritual to find God's help to get my missing sister. Our Dad is late but mum is highly disorganised.”

Ifeanyi said the matter have been reported to the UNIZIK management.

When CAMPUSLIFE visited Annabel's mother in Onitsha, she fought back tears as neighbours consoled her. She said: “I warned my daughter to keep free from bad friends, but she'd not listen. When she was admitted in a hospital a couple of months ago, my spirit never accepted the type of girls who visited her. Now, they've done their worst. I can't see my daughter, now. Where's my only daughter? Annabel was seven months within my womb when my husband died.”

Mrs Edeh said she'd consulted a prophet, who confirmed to her that her daughter is alive but held captive somewhere. She claimed that the prophet informed her so it was Annabel's friends that facilitated her ‘abduction'and threatened to sue them if her daughter didn't return within days.
She added: “All I'm asking may be the safe return of my daughter. I don't have any other girl. If she was kidnapped, those holding her could have called us. I'm confused. We're only praying to God and hoping that she returns home safe and alive. I'm pleading with anyone, who knows her whereabouts, to offer useful information that will help us to locate her.”