Crime
BREAKING: 21-Year-Old Girl Declared Missing In Warri, Hiding In Benin, Police Reveals, Arrests Parents
By Daniel Dafe
Parent2s of the 21-year-old Stephine Solomon Oghenevwoke that was declared missing after she left for work at Okumagba Estate and did not return home have been arrested.
Oasis Magazine (OM) learnt that they are currently under detention in Asaba for conniving with their daughter to stage that she is missing in order to defraud the financial management company that she works for.
According to reports, Stephanie Oghenevwoke using her influence in the company that finances both small and medium scale businesses, approved loans for herself by proxy.
She used her mother and the wife of their church pastor, pretending that they have genuine businesses for loans to be approved and paid.
However, trouble started when Oghenevwoke was ordered by the company’s management to go after the loan defaulters she provided because they were not showing any willingness to repay the debt.
It was at that moment that she connived with her parents to flee town and hide at a relative’s house in Asaba.
When the company reached out to the mother over the loan repayment, she vehemently refused insisting that not until they provide her daughter, she will not pay.
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The company sensing foul play involved the police authorities and declared her missing thereafter.
During interrogation, her parents admitted to the police that they connived with their daughter to flee so they can defraud the company with her absence and not repay the loan.
She is currently detained at the State Headquarters in Asaba while her parents are cooling off their heels at the ‘B’ Division in Warri pending the conclusion of police investigation.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe confirmed the development, saying that since the police issued an earlier statememt that announced that she was missing, they would issue another to state the facts on what they discovered.
He said: “She had a plan with her parents who assisted her in stealing from her boss and then escaped.”
Adding: “The parents have confessed to the crime. B Division and Zone 5 are investigating different aspects of the case.”
Asked if the girl was in their custody according to news sources, he said that the parents have called her to come from Benin, but that she is yet to show up even after she promised severally that she is coming.