The police in Akwa Ibom State have reunited a missing four- year boy with his family.
Victor Asuquo got missing on Sunday, October 13 after attending a church service at the Deeper Life Bible Church, IBB Way, Uyo, with his cousin, one Michael Godswill.
It was gathered that after the service, the whereabouts of Victor could not be ascertained.
One Ekemini Stanley was said to have, however, found the missing Victor around his neighbourhood and took him to ‘ C’ Division Police Station, Aka/ Etinan, Uyo.
Spokesperson of the police in Akwa Ibom, Odiko Macdon, who confirmed the incident, said the police upon receiving the boy, made frantic effort to locate his parents.
“It is heartwarming to state that the police located the mother of the missing but found child, one Comfort Elijah of Nung Ette, Ibesikpo Asutan local government area,’’ he said
Macdon also confirmed that the Commissioner of Police ( CP) in the state, Ahmed Zaki while handing the child over to the mother, advised parents to see the security of their children as a priority.
The CP, impressed by the brilliance of the child who, according to his mother, has been enrolled in school due to lack of money, awarded scholarship to see him through primary school.
