Panic as Lagos banker goes missing on way home

An employee of the Ecobank branch at Bourdillon, Ikoyi, Lagos, 33-year-old Bukola Olowookere, has been missing since May 5, 2016, sending her family into panic because no clue has yet to emerge as to her whereabouts. Her husband of four years, Adewale, told Saturday
PUNCH on Thursday that as she left her office at the close of work on the day she went missing, she called him to verbally express she was peregrinating home. According to him, she called around 7pm as she stepped out of her office. But that was the last he aurally perceived from her. Adewale verbally expressed they have a four year old son who has been asking for his mother consistently. Saturday PUNCH learnt that a colleague of hers gave her a hoist from the office but dropped her off around Canoe area of Ajao Estate, Isoloon her way to Oke-Afa area of Ejigbo where she resides with her husband.

No one has any inkling what could have transpired to her within the short distance it would have taken her to get home. Friends and associates have been circulating her photographs on the convivial media appealing for information that can avail locate her. But her family verbalized they have got no calls pertaining to her, throwing them into apprehension on whether this is an abduction or not. “We wait by the phone every day with the hope that whoever is holding her will make a call and injuctively authorize mazuma, but nothing like this has transpired. But we keep praying for her and we are sure we will get her back,” a family member told our correspondent.

The case was reported at the Ejigbo Police Division, Lagos but so far investigation into her whereabouts has been stalled. The Lagos State Police Command spokersperson, Dolapo Badmus, verbalized the case has been transferred to the police headquarters for more excruciating investigation.