Parents in grief as two-year-old son goes missing near river in Lokoja

The family of Mr Mamtip Kumfa and Mrs Lovina Kumfa savor on Tuesday continued the search their missing two-Three hundred and sixty five days-old son Godwin Kumfa.

Godwin Kumfa went missing on Monday morning, and as of Tuesday morning, he remains missing. He changed into final seen as regards to Meme River, on the motivate of the Navy Quarters, Segment Two Extension, in Lokoja, around 7:30 a.m. on Monday.

His father knowledgeable journalists that he got a damage name from a neighbour around 7:30 a.m. that the boy changed into missing.

Kumfa, a security guard at a non-public faculty, stated he returned home to search out his valuable other browsing on the riverside.

He explained that his valuable other had left Godwin sitting by the river whereas she went to rep sand and returned to search out him long gone. “Godwin changed into left alone by the river whereas she gathered sand,” Kumfa stated, his converse stuffed with effort.

“Later, we figured out one among his sneakers as regards to Arigbede, about 15 km downstream. I’m lost. Godwin is my handiest son,” he added. Godwin’s mother couldn’t administration her tears as she pleaded for relief and divine intervention.

“I left him real for a whereas. When I got right here motivate, he changed into long gone. Please, God, relief me net my exiguous one,” she sobbed. A family honest correct friend, Seun Babalola, stated they trailed the river direction, nonetheless would per chance handiest net the boy’s shoe downstream.

He revealed that a identical tragedy had took place on the same river two years ago, provocative yet another young boy. “Two years ago, a seven-Three hundred and sixty five days-old named Goodluck Friday additionally drowned right here. It’s painful.

“We don’t know if it’s natural or something else. Finest God is conscious of,” he stated. The group remains in shock, as family, friends, and neighbours rally across the grieving other folks.