[size=14pt]Where’s Shogo? • Boy, who left home fiveweeks ago, yet to return[/size]
By VINCENT UKPONG KALU

Saturday, January 22, 2011

When 15-year-old Shogo Sunday left his 22, Babalola Street, Ago Okota, Isolo, Lagos home, on December 13, 2010, for Suru-Alaba Market, the intention was for him to buy some items for her aunt’s shop. However, this trip to the market has become a source of pain and sorrow for the boy’s aunty and her family. Shogo is yet to be seen, five weeks after.




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Shogo Sunday


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According to Mrs. Ronke Oyelese, Shogo’s aunt, the boy, who is 4ft, 7inches tall, went to the market to purchase some items for their shop in the evening of that day. She revealed that when he didn’t return, apprehension gripped members of the family, which made them move from one bus terminal to another, on the route leading to the market, in search of the missing boy. Also, the family reported the matter to the police.


Mrs. Oyelese revealed that when members of her family went to Orile Police Station that evening to report the case, the police told them that it was not up to 24 hours. She revealed that the police said they could only take such matter as case of missing person after 24 hours.

She said: “That evening, when Shogo didn’t return home, we went to all the bus-stops making enquires. We also went to the market and there wasn’t any head way as to his whereabouts. When we went to Orile police station, we were told that until it was up to 24 hours before they can entertain the report. The next day, when it was up to the stipulated time, we went to Orile police station to report the matter. We also went Ago Okota police station as well as Layeni police stations, Ojo Road. We also went to the Festac police station.


“It was at Ago Okota police station that a letter was given to us which we took to police public relations office, Oduduwa, Ikeja, where all the police stations in Lagos were radioed and there hasn’t been any positive development. We have also been to Lagos Television with his photograph and yet we have not heard anything about his whereabouts.”


Mrs. Oyelese said the day Shogo got missing was not the first time he went to the market to buy things for the shop. “He is used to the market, as he has been there several times,” she said. She said that Shogo was well-behaved and that the thought of him disappearing with the money was remote, as, according to her, he took a little above N4,000 to the market.

The distraught family has also sent message to Shogo’s village, in Ekiti State and got a reply that the boy didn’t come there.

Mrs. Oyelese is appealing to anyone with useful information on the whereabouts of Shogo to contact the nearest police station or her family on 08023272932.