Facebook Joins Son With Mother After Missing For 3 Years

The social media platform, Facebook has joined the missing son, Suleiman Abba Umar with his mother, Binta after three years.

According to report, Suleiman was kidnapped by unknown abductors after school on January 6, 2014 after school period.

Narrating his experience, Suleiman said:

“I regained consciousness only to find myself on a pile of corpses by a beach, some with missing heads or limbs. I
was terrified.”

“I visited food vendors, pushed disabled people on wheelchairs for a commission of their takings for the day, sometimes as low as N100 daily.”

He also explained how Facebook facilitated his reunion with mother.

A friend had suggested that he employs the social media page in search of his family members.

“I met one Muhammed, and we became friends, so I soon moved to their shanty. I was always quiet, so almost everyone around me thought I had a speech
impairment.

“I told them my parents’ names, and they came up with all kinds of ideas, and someone suggested I search for
my family on Facebook.

“There was no response for a while, so we also tried using mutual friends. One of my cousins accepted, and we got chatting, and when I told him who I was, he laughed and thought I was an internet fraudster out to exploit the family’s pain.

“My cousin reluctantly sent me my mum’s number, and that’s when I placed the call that night, and we spoke.”

The mother, who was at first shocked to connect with her son expressed how restless she felt speaking with him after three years.

“To my shock, I heard Suleiman stammering at the other end. As I heard his voice, I knew it was him, and I began to cry, and he joined in,” she said.

Binta said although it was 1am in the morning, she could not wait to get to Lagos — having lived with the pain of
losing him for three years.

“It was past 1:00am and I couldn’t wait to get to Lagos. I reached out to agents for flight tickets, to no avail, as virtually all the morning flights had been booked,” she said.

“In the morning, I rushed to the airport having finally got a flight for noon. As I was doing this, I reached out to Katsina Liaison Office in Lagos to help, as well.

“He’s totally changed, he’s now a man, and darker as a result of hardships he’s been through.”