Young man disappears after using ATM in Lagos

A final year student of the Technical College, Ikorodu, Lagos State, Iseoluwa Omomowo, has disappeared after helping his stepbrother’s wife to collect some money from an ATM in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos state.

According to The Punch, Omomowo, 28, who is from Ilaje in Ondo state, withdrew N8,000 from a new generation bank’s Automated Teller Machine on Saturday, but he did not return home. His phone was switched off and all efforts to locate him have proven abortive.

His stepbrother, Dr Omoteyinshe Oluwole, said the victim has been living with them for about five years.

 “He started living with me in 2011. He is a final year student of Electrical Department of the Technical College, Ikorodu. On that Saturday, I sent some money to my wife’s bank account. My wife asked him to withdraw N8,000 from the ATM. After withdrawing the money, he was supposed to go to the Lagos Island to get a pair of trousers from my tailor.

“At exactly 12.28pm, she received an alert on her phone that the money had been withdrawn from the account. Around 4pm, my wife called me that she had yet to see my brother and she was going to the market and needed somebody to stay with our child. I called him on the telephone, but he didn’t pick his calls.”

“Around 6pm again, I called the tailor again, and he said he had not seen my brother. We called his cell phone repeatedly, but nobody picked the calls. At 9pm when he didn’t return home, we thought he had gone to watch football at a viewing centre. The police said we could not report until after 24 hours,” he added.

A family friend and lawyer, Ige Asemudara, said the family had gone to different police stations, as well as prayer houses.

He said: “In one of the places we went to, we were told that he was abducted by some people and they would still release him.”