A 75-year-old man, Daniel Chukwu, has been declared missing after accompanying his family to the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Yaba, Lagos State.
According to his daughter, Onyinye, the septuagenarian accompanied her and her mother to the hospital on June 25, 2025, for a medical evaluation for her younger brother.
She said, due to hospital policy allowing only two people into the emergency ward, the elderly man was asked to wait outside the ward area while she and her mother proceeded inside.
“He was sitting beside the emergency ward. I even got him food between 9 and 10 am, which he ate. Later, I had to take my brother’s urine sample to the lab and told my dad I would get him snacks on my way back. But by the time I returned, he was nowhere to be found,” she said.
She said after searching the immediate area, they assumed the man might have tried to find his way home in Egbeda, where the family resides.
“We returned home expecting to meet him, but he hadn’t arrived. I went back to the hospital to report the matter and asked about CCTV footage, but was told the cameras weren’t working due to lack of electricity,” she said.
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