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Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by VOsimhen144(m): 12:40pm On Jan 03, 2022
tiswell:
what gbola cannot cause doesn't exist
Respect yourself, it's a new year.

Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Lemmy123(m): 12:42pm On Jan 03, 2022
tiswell:
what gbola cannot cause doesn't exist
Try and get sense, this is a new year!
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Xscape1993(m): 12:45pm On Jan 03, 2022
kristonium:
By the authority and the Power in the Blood of Jesus, I declare that Gabriella will be located and returned right now in the name of Jesus!
Amen
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Yoighaman(m): 12:48pm On Jan 03, 2022
Dorothy should produce the little beautiful girl.
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by snoopz: 12:49pm On Jan 03, 2022
I'm sorry to say, you share a larger portion of the blame, you were pregnant and your 4yrs old child was with you and you didn't stay at home to pray in your house just like Daniel
I just hope for the best case scenario concerned your daughter
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Nobody: 12:49pm On Jan 03, 2022
badboyTee:
This made me remember the day I went to deeper life gbagada with a friend I walked freely that day to one side of an office I didn't know pastor kumuyi was there I just tried to maybe touch him or greet or so naso this security wipe me koboko I wan change it for him that day that how some ushers just took me out to calm me down ever since that day I no reach that church again oo and if I can meet that security I would beat him like no tommorow cheesy
He did a good thing. He wanted to wipe your stupidity away. You wanted to touch him because you're the woman with the issue of blood. Next!
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Calicoe: 1:01pm On Jan 03, 2022
This whole thing was masterminded by Dorothy. A little torture would prove it
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by MrTee28(m): 1:01pm On Jan 03, 2022
badboyTee:
This made me remember the day I went to deeper life gbagada with a friend I walked freely that day to one side of an office I didn't know pastor kumuyi was there I just tried to maybe touch him or greet or so naso this security wipe me koboko I wan change it for him that day that how some ushers just took me out to calm me down ever since that day I no reach that church again oo and if I can meet that security I would beat him like no tommorow cheesy
Just imagine.
I rate a person as a servant of God, only when that simplicity, that lowliness and self abnegation that is in Christ is also found in them.
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by OgunkeelAllMod: 1:03pm On Jan 03, 2022
One sentence :Nigeria is a useless country ! undecided Simple
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by TheMostComplex1: 1:04pm On Jan 03, 2022
By the power of thy Holy spirit I decree that she's will be found hale and hearty in ijn Amen
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by mastermaestro(m): 1:08pm On Jan 03, 2022
snoopz:
I'm sorry to say, you share a larger portion of the blame, you were pregnant and your 4yrs old child was with you and you didn't stay at home to pray in your house just like Daniel
I just hope for the best case scenario concerned your daughter
That was the genesis of the whole tragedy. People cast off wisdom, and embrace emotion. Truly, she should have stayed back in her house to pray instead of travelling to one remote village, not alone, but with her little child.

In life poor decisions always come back to hurt. It’s unfortunate! sad
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by otokx(m): 1:08pm On Jan 03, 2022
snoopz:
I'm sorry to say, you share a larger portion of the blame, you were pregnant and your 4yrs old child was with you and you didn't stay at home to pray in your house just like Daniel
I just hope for the best case scenario concerned your daughter
Please say it again, I don't know why some people especially in Nigeria find it so difficult to stay in their houses and mind their business even with their various conditions.
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by joe120120(m): 1:12pm On Jan 03, 2022
kristonium:
By the authority and the Power in the Blood of Jesus, I declare that Gabriella will be located and returned right now in the name of Jesus!
Amen
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Buffalo2(m): 1:13pm On Jan 03, 2022
Women and prayer eh!
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Nobody: 1:14pm On Jan 03, 2022
You’re too calm
That very day i would hv tortured Dorothy
She go talk truth by force
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by kristonium(m): 1:25pm On Jan 03, 2022
BKayy:
Its like you think this is a joke
Does that sound like a joke to you?
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by muheeb01(m): 1:26pm On Jan 03, 2022
They don't want to work legitimately anymore or soil their hands....there is no easy way out,you must go through your struggles now or later....may God locate this girl and return her safely to her parents
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by kristonium(m): 1:26pm On Jan 03, 2022
[quote author= post=109042011]Amen in Jesus mighty name.
God bless you for this heartfelt prayer.
We pray she will be united to her parents before the next 21 days.
May God changed the minds of her kidnappers.
Nothing impossible for God to do.

So shall it be in Jesus name.



Are you, are you, are you normal?!
Nairalanders, imagine the kinda species you share this forum with!
Tufiakwa!

Collectii better slap abegii.....
[/quote]Amen!!!
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by kristonium(m): 1:27pm On Jan 03, 2022
headbasher96:
that baby was lost about one year ago she might even forget her parents by now
With God all things are possible.
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by andyanders: 1:45pm On Jan 03, 2022
ValCon888:
This memory will hurt her. It hurts me and I'm only reading it.

Events like this make you wish you could change one thing to alter the past.

If she had taken her daughter herself and not entrusted her to another person, the little girl would still be with her.
If she had decided not to attend the yearly prayer all this wouldn't have happened.

And the negligence of that Dorothy is highly suspicious.

You volunteered to take the little girl to the toilet, you cleaned her up, but you couldn't take her back to her mummy?

I find her explanation dubious and unconvincing.
Exectly. She could be the one that planned it.
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by BelovedofLord: 1:47pm On Jan 03, 2022
badboyTee:
This made me remember the day I went to deeper life gbagada with a friend I walked freely that day to one side of an office I didn't know pastor kumuyi was there I just tried to maybe touch him or greet or so naso this security wipe me koboko I wan change it for him that day that how some ushers just took me out to calm me down ever since that day I no reach that church again oo and if I can meet that security I would beat him like no tommorow cheesy
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Fiction or real life?
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by shevchenko(m): 1:47pm On Jan 03, 2022
That Dorathy is a bastard
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Nobody:
I am going to excuse some of her approach in trying to find her Daughter on the ground that "Desperate times as they say requires Desperate measures".

The Universe and everything in it Keeps presenting this type of opportunities everyday for Nigerians/Africans to realize that these self appointed men of God are nothing but con men using religion as a front to perpetuate their fraudulent and thieving agenda.
As a consequentialist, it's a proven fact that whether a thing is good or bad can only be judged from the consequences/Results of applying/using it.

My Question is this, Why are we blindly following these religious leaders and being over superstitious while in reality these things make no difference in the real world... In fact they are can be and are always counter productive.?

Can you even make sense out of the Nonsense prophet Jeremiah Fufuyen said as alleged by the woman? All the spiritual houses she visited non could help her because they are all liars. When Ebola came, they all went into hiding. A pandemic in the scale of Covid-19 was not seen by these so called prophets... Remember they dole out their usual New year prophecy/ permutations. You men God did not find it Wise to warn his Children to prepare for what was coming through these pastors/ prophets?

Why are they always healing Back Pain, Neck pain?
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by shevchenko(m): 1:51pm On Jan 03, 2022
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Yeyeoldman:
I am going to excuse some of her approach in trying to find her Daughter on the ground that "Desperate times as they requires Desperate measures".

The Universe and everything in it Keeps presenting this type of opportunities everyday for Nigerians/Africans to realize that these self appointed men of God are nothing but con men using religion as a front to perpetuate their fraudulent and thieving agenda.
As a consequentialist, it's a proven fact that whether a thing is good or bad can only be judged from the consequences/Results of applying/using it.

My Question is this, Why are we blindly following these religious leaders and being over superstitious while in reality these things make no difference in the real world... In fact they are can be and are always counter productive.?

Can you even make sense out of the Nonsense prophet Jeremiah Fufuyen said as alleged by the woman? All the spiritual houses she visited non could help her because they are all liars. When Ebola came, they all went into hiding. A pandemic in the scale of Covid-19 was not seen by these so called prophets... Remember they dole out their usual New year prophecy/ permutations. You men God did not find it Wise to warn his Children to prepare for what was coming through these pastors/ prophets?

Why are they always healing Back Pain, Neck pain?
[/s]

What the hell man ? angry
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by PeachtreeReside(f): 2:14pm On Jan 03, 2022
I think most young adults are not being trained to be smart, to think right or be responsible.


How can an 18yrs old not be mindful of a child in her charge?



I was babysitting my young ones by 10yrs old and I was mindful of them.



Young ones need to be pushed into being responsible from a young age.


Maturity is not by being rude or nonchalant.


I hope the prophecy comes to pass and she is found.
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by lilyheaven: 2:26pm On Jan 03, 2022
mardis:
Heart wrenching, no mother should go through this. Such a beautiful and cute little girl. My hopes and prayer are with you maam. I pray she is found hale and sound. BhiziniLahi
Some years back, I took my nephew to the village, we went upstairs together to greet my grandma, he was five years old but deaf , left him in the sitting room to get water from the kitchen, as I came out from the kitchen, I didn’t see him,,, Jesus, where is this boy? I ran down stairs, asked the security man if he saw him, he said since we came in , no one has come in or gone out, I felt relief, started looking for this boy, everyone joined me , but we couldn’t find him.
I cried my eyes out that day, what will I tell my sister cry cry. Ran outside the gate, asked everyone I saw on the road, but no one saw him, luckily, I saw one man dragging him down towards my grandma’s house... he said he saw him roaming the market... he asked him where his parents were, but he didn’t answer,, but looking at his face ,,, his mind told him he has Ogbonna’s face , let him take him there and ask them..
Huh! That was how I got saved that day.
And that was my last time of taking him anywhere.
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by general007: 2:44pm On Jan 03, 2022
[quote author= post=109031744]Update From . COM

Precious Owunari Pepple, the mother of a 4-year-old girl who went missing in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers state, has opened up a year after the incident.

LIB had reported that Gabriella Sokari Tolofari, mysteriously disappeared from a prayer ground at Deema community, in Bonny on December 13, 2020.

Speaking to PUNCH Mrs Pepple narrated the event leading to the disappearance of her daughter and all the efforts made to find her.

Speaking about what led to her daughter's disappearance, she said;

My daughter, Gabriella Sokari Tolofari, was four years old when she got missing. She would have been five this year. I was pregnant at the time. I had also just lost my mom that year, too, in May. It was Christmas period like this that the incident happened. My aunt called me on December 8 that she was coming to Bonny from Port Harcourt to join a yearly prayer, which was organised in our village, Bethel Village, very close to Dema Village.

She came in on December 12, which was also my birthday, and we went to the village for the prayers. I went with my daughter as well. The next day, being Sunday, I was with my daughter in front of our village house, feeding her. Other kids were also there. My aunt’s 18-year-old girl, Dorathy, was also there.

My daughter complained that she was pressed and needed to poo. I ignored her at first, but Dorathy said she would take her (Gabriella) to the back of the house to poo, as there was no proper toilet in the village. After some time, I also went to the back of the house to pee but I took the right wing. My daughter and Dorathy took the left wing.

There were people at the back of the house, so I joined them, while waiting for my daughter to finish pooing. I sat there for a while but she didn’t return. I thought that, perhaps, she had followed Dorathy to another house, so I didn’t feel uncomfortable.

But while still sitting there, a little girl about my daughter’s age walked up to me and asked about my daughter’s whereabouts. At that point, I became concerned. I asked the little girl if she had seen Dorathy, who took my daughter to poo and she girl said Dorathy was in the house, cutting vegetables.

"The little girl led me to where Dorathy was. I asked her where my daughter was. She said my daughter had finished pooing and after helping her to wipe her butts, she told her to come and meet me.

Then I asked her why she would do that, knowing that my daughter, who was just four years old, was new in the area and didn’t know her way around. I asked her where my daughter could be, but Dorathy could not give me any reasonable answer. I began to panic at that point.

But I tried to calm myself down, telling myself that she might have followed other kids to play. But then I know my daughter is not that kind of a child; she wouldn’t follow just anyone. She followed Dorathy because she knew her. I know that if she wanted to play with anyone, she would inform me.

On how she reacted after realizing her daughter had gone missing, Mrs Pepple said;

"I began to shout around the village, announcing that I was looking for my daughter. This happened around 1pm and I was going round till around 3pm, searching for her, but there was no sign of her. We searched every nook and cranny of the village. We trekked down to Dema village which was miles away.

There was no sign of my daughter. Then I began to question Dorathy where exactly she dropped Gabriella, but she was saying the same thing – ‘I wiped her butts and told her to go meet you where you were seated’. I asked everyone I saw out there if they saw any little girl wandering around. From the backyard to the front of the house is not too far, someone must have seen her. One old woman told me she saw her come out of the backyard but didn’t know the direction she went from that point."

Asked where her husband was when all was happening, she said;

"He was at work. I called him to tell him that our daughter had gone missing; he was shocked for a while but tried to calm me down. The next day, he came with some of his friends in a boat for another search. They even divided themselves into two groups. Two boats filled with youths went to Dema Village and another two, also filled, went through Bethel. We searched till the two groups met. We even searched houses but couldn’t find her. That is how things have been till this moment. Whenever I have to recall this, I begin to blame myself. My daughter just become a vapour that I only feel her, but cannot see. It is sad!

On police involvement in the case, she said;

"We reported to the Bonny Divisional Police Headquarters. They (police) followed us down to the village. They did their own search and questioning, and in the end, took Dorathy with them to the station for questioning. After a while, her people started calling, saying it was a family matter and we didn’t need to arrest Dorathy.

They said all manner of things, forgetting that my missing daughter was a four-year-old minor. It became a serious issue in the family, so we got Dorathy released. They had taken her to the State Criminal Investigation Department in Port Harcourt. The family had a meeting and agreed they would involve prophets and seers.

They went to meet Prophet Jeremiah (Fufeyin) of Mercyland Ministries. It was even aired live on television. They spent one week in Delta State. They went from one mountain prayer session to another. Prophet Jeremiah said he saw it in the spirit that the girl was alive and that she was kidnapped by three men and a woman who masterminded the whole thing. He didn’t say who the men and the woman were, what their intention was, or where my daughter was. He just said my daughter would come back. We went to other places to get some spiritual help but they told us that they didn’t see anything concerning the child."

On how she's coping with the fact that her daughter has been missing for a whole year, she said;

"I feel very bad because we are talking of a human being. It is quite different if the girl was ill or dead. At least, we can say, “This is where she was buried.” Her disappearance is something I haven’t come to terms with. I feel very bad. I spent complete four years training her and nine months she spent in my womb. It is heartrending!

I have waited for one whole year without any sign of her and I am running out of patience. I don’t know if she is safe where she is. As a girl child, only God knows what they must have done to her. The first month when she got missing, I almost lost faith in God. I stopped eating; I also stopped communicating with anyone. I would just sit in my room, lock the door and would cry till I slept off. I became a shadow of myself, and I was pregnant. I just want to open the door and see her standing outside.

Mrs Pepple is still hopeful that she'll find her missing daughter.

"I have hope! I have never taken anybody’s child, so anyone who carried my child would certainly return her to me." she said.

Asked if she has been contacted to pay ransom for her child to be released, she said;

"Nobody has done that till date. We even thought they would call us and say we should pay a ransom to free our child, but no one has called us. At least, all the money I am spending on going to different seers, we’d gather it and pay the ransom. I still have hope that she will come back alive and healthy."

On how the police is helping with the case, she said;

"I went back to the police station when I heard that some suspected kidnappers’ den was raided and about 200 children retrieved in Auchi, Edo State. I told them to help me make contact with officers in Auchi, but they said I must send someone. I tried sending someone but she failed us at the last minute. She said she didn’t want to get into trouble. Since then, we are just hoping that she would come back.

See More Photos As Obtained By Below:

Source: https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2022/1/its-like-we-are-watching-a-horror-movie-mother-opens-up-one-year-after-her-4-year-old-daughter-went-missing-at-prayer-ground-in-rivers-2.html[/quote]*Your daughter will be found please don't loose hope*
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Nobody: 2:46pm On Jan 03, 2022
kristonium:
By the authority and the Power in the Blood of Jesus, I declare that Gabriella will be located and returned right now in the name of Jesus!
Yea right! story! where was Jesus when the child went missing? Jesus is still waiting to do something, Jesus is a useless drunk.
Re: 'How My Daughter Gabriella Sokari Tolofari Went Missing During Prayer In Bonny' by Nobody: 2:51pm On Jan 03, 2022
Why did they go the police police are only humans, they should ask their useless God ans useless Jesus who they took the poor child to worship to.


And oh! how come their fake miracle performing crooked pastor Jeremiah not being able to see in his visions where the girl is or who abducted her. The pastor is probarbly involved in the kidnap.
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