by ‘Jola Sotubo

A native doctor fell victim as a couple he took in to supposedly treat and help turned out to be wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Vincent Amafule and his wife took in the strangers who were brought in by a former patient of his identified simply as Ifeanyi. Amafule was told by Ifeanyi that the woman he brought was suffering from fibroid and her husband had accompanied her to be treated.

The herbalist took in the couple, made them feel at home and began his treatment. Apparently this wasn’t the first time he had taken in patients previously unknown to him. Unfortunately for him though, this time was different, as the couple had an evil purpose which was to steal Amafule’s baby daughter, and they succeeded.

The Sun reports:

The family’s nightmare, Sunday Sun, learnt began when one Ifeanyi from Uvuru, a neighboring community brought two unidentified people, a lady and a man said to have come from Bayelsa where he resides to Mr Amafule for treatment. The said Ifeanyi who is also at large was himself once treated by Amafule.

The distraught trado-medical doctor narrated how their ordeal started. “This whole problem started last Sunday morning at about 7:30 am when an old Mercedes Benz 190 model drove into my compound and I saw Ifeanyi who is from Uvuru, our neigbhouring village with a man and a woman who I had thought was the wife. Ifeanyi told me that he had brought them to me because the woman had been suffering from fibroid and needed treatment. He said they would be spending a week for the duration of the treatment. I welcomed them because as a trado–medical doctor, I have been treating women with similar problems.

“I prepared one of the rooms in my house for the man and his wife to sleep and my wife also prepared food for them to eat and it never crossed my mind that the people were planning to steal my little baby girl.

“The following day, I commenced the fibroid treatment for the woman. In the evening, while my wife was preparing dinner in the kitchen, I was inside my room preparing another dose for the woman. My other daughter of six years was with her little sister, Esther in front of the house.

“Later my older daughter ran in to inform my wife that the strange woman said she wants to help her carry Esther. When my wife came out, the strange woman and my six-month old daughter had disappeared into the night.  It was later that I discovered that the car they came in was no longer parked in the compound and I suspected that the man must have rolled the car out into the street because I did not hear any sound. It was then it dawned on me that the man and woman who claimed to be a couple were actually baby thieves. At this point, I raised the alarm.”

Amafule told Sunday Sun that when his supposed patients made away with his little daughter, he tried to contact Ifeanyi who brought them from Bayelsa through his cellphone but discovered that the number does not exist. He also disclosed that on inquiry, he learnt that Ifeanyi’s mother lives in Aba, in Abia State, while he resides in Bayelsa State.