Epileptic boy still missing
Missing 11-year-old Gift Gada from Pretoria West, who has been missing since last week Wednesday, is said to have been spotted in Pretoria CBD.
Missing 11-year-old Gift Gada from Pretoria West, who has been missing since last week Wednesday, is said to have been spotted in Pretoria CBD.
It has been five days since Gift disappeared from his home. He is epileptic and his mother, Elizabeth Mbazelu, said he did not have his medication with him.
Mbazelu said on Monday she went to the hospital in the area on Saturday to enquire about him.
“I put up photos of him at Pretoria West and Kalafong hospitals in case someone have information. On Saturday I also went to the CBD to search for him.”
Mbazelu said that she stumbled across a group of vagrants and asked them if they had seen Gift. She said one of them said he saw him earlier the day in Lilian Ngoyi Street (Van der Walt).
“I am going out of my mind. I am scared that he might smoke these bad things they smoke in the street. The vagrant who saw him said he still looked decent and clean. He has been without his epilepsy medication for days already and I am scared something might happen to him,” a worried Mbazelu said.
She said on the day of his disappearance they were talking about him going back to school. Gift apparently wanted his mother to move him to another school, but she told him she could not afford this. “When we finished talking, Gift looked upset, got up and left the house.”
She said he usually returned home when this happened in the past and she was shocked that he did not do so this time.
One of Mbazelu’s neighbours said he saw Gift in their street on the afternoon of the day he disappeared.
“I wish I’d gone out to look for him earlier, maybe I would have found him. I have not slept for days now. I do not know what to do. We still pray as a family and with the church for his safe return home,” said Mbazelu.
Someone said they saw Gift in Pretoria CBD toward Church square, said the mother.
When Gift left his home on Wednesday, he was last seen wearing brown LTD pants with a white long sleeve Adidas t-shirt with red stripes on the wrists and Adidas sandals. He was reported missing at the Pretoria West police station the same day. Anyone with information on Gift’s whereabouts, could call his mother on 076-660-4847 or Warrant Officer Killian from the Pretoria West police on 082-334-5253.
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