A seven-year-old boy who was purportedly taken from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has been found in Aba, the commercial city of Abia State.

Abuja Metro gathered that following the boy?s discovery, he was taken to officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in charge of Aba South LGA, who communicated the matter to the leaders of Northern Nigeria?s community residing in the town.

In a phone interview with our reporter yesterday, the Chief Imam of Aba Central Mosque, Malam Idris Bashir, said the boy simply disclosed his name as ?Abdul? while giving his mother?s name as Hauwa?u.

He said the boy told them that he was taken by somebody from Abuja where he lives with his parents.

?According to the boy, the man had offered to assist him to cross a road in his community within Abuja, only to move with him to somewhere else, and later took him to the South East.

?The security officials relayed the information to us last Tuesday, when we visited their office and had a conversation with the boy.

?The boy appeared to be a Muslim, as he was able to answer all the questions raised to him from the Islamic Holy Scripture,? the Imam said.

He further stated that so far, he has been contacted by two different individuals following the sharing of the incident on the social media platform.

?One of the two persons who contacted me had said that the boy did not appear to be his own missing son, while the second other has concluded to travel down to Aba to meet the boy for identification, physically,? he added.

In a similar incident, a four-year-old boy was declared missing after he was allegedly stolen from the Tudun-Wada community, in Karu LGA of Nassarawa State.

In a phone interview with Abuja Metro yesterday, the father of the missing boy, Salisu Bashir, said his son, Ismaila Bashir, was suspected to have be taken by two female co-tenants, who had rented a house close to his home about three days before the incident.

?The women took the boy around sunset while I was attending the Maghrib prayers with other residents in a mosque within our neighbourhood. All efforts to trace them through their landlord thereafter were not successful as they used cash in paying the rent, while their phone contact is no longer accessible.

?In the evening of the incident, the women had received a cash transfer of N35,000 through a POS operator in the neighbourhood. We are now in the process of securing a court order and tracking the account that was used in sending the money,? Bashir added. (Daily Trust)

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