It appears the grim reports that turn faces ruddy in the desperation for remedies may not go away anytime soon. This one is about the phenomenon in which children go missing.
This story was inspired by a recent scene in Kumasi in which a second-hand clothing seller left her toddler to his own devices and he was found loitering in a busy thoroughfare whilst she sold her items.
Just a blink of an eye is the chance to exploit the negligence. The poor attention given to children has resulted in their capture by baby thieves.
In another story, a mother of a lad while walking within a thick market crowd, carelessly and thoughtlessly took the lead and left the child behind. At some point when she turned to look back, the child was nowhere to be found. She is desperately making announcements about the lost child.
Seven years ago, that is 2017, a man could not trace his four-year-old son with whom he was attending a funeral. In a twinkle of an eye, a little loss of contact between him and the infant resulted in the latter straying and possibly being abducted by a hoodlum. The handsome boy is still at large.
It sometimes turns horrific as was the case in Abesim in Ghana’s Bono region, of a man who lured children into playful games but that was a tantalizer to their deaths. He allegedly murdered the children, mutilated their bodies, and kept them as body parts in a refrigerator. This case has been in the legal chamber for two years now.