SIMILAR to the Lusaka weekend spectacle where a married woman reported her husband missing when he was actually having the best time of his life, a Namwala grandmother also reported to police her 14-year-old granddaughter as missing when she was actually having a mini-illegal honey moon with her boyfriend.
The grade eight pupil of Namwala Central Secondary School is said to have been in a relationship with the man for a while now until police interfered.
During the course of their love affair, the accused would buy and give beer to the juvenile and it has been going on for a while.
However, on May monthend, she left her home where she stays with her 66 years old grandmother and disappeared without a trace and went to her boyfriend’s home in show grounds area.
Worried about the whereabout of her granddaughter, the old woman ran to police and to the child’s school and made a report of a missing person, and Namwala officers also immediately applied their best skills to find the missing girl.
Alas! Amidst their intense search, the lost girl suddenly reappeared home on Monday where she went to get her school uniforms in preparation for school after going missing for four good days.
She sneaked into the house around 06:00 hours while her grandmother was sleeping, picked her uniforms, and went to school.
But upon her arrival at school, the school head teacher informed her grandmother who immediately rushed there to get her and later reported the matter at the Police.
When questioned by officers, the teenager opened up and said she was with her boyfriend only identified as Musa for four days that she went missing.
Southern province police commanding officer, Auxensio Daka who confirmed the incident said acting on the report, police opened a docket of defilement on the matter.
“Officers then issued out a medical report form for the survivor to attain medical treatment while the suspect is yet to be arrested,” said Daka.
By Buumba Mwitumwa
Kalemba June 10, 2024
