It was a happy reunion on Monday as the lost-but-found Adeola, the 41-year-old daughter of Actress Jumoke George, finally reunited with her mother and family in Lagos.
Earlier, Jumoke George had raised the alarm about not hearing from her daughter in four years during an interview on the Talk to B show hosted by Abiola Bayo.
Following the interview, the host, Abiola reached out to the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, whose Chairman, Abike Dabiri-Erewa immediately got in touch with the Ag Nigerian High Commissioner in Mali, Amb Ugo Chime who facilitated her transportation back home
A statement by the
Director of Media, Public Relations and Protocols of NIDCOM, Abdur-Rahman Balogun on Monday evening
said Dabiri-Erewa, was at hand in the Lagos office of the commission where the very excited Adeola, thanked the NiDCOM Chairman, the Acting Nigeria Ambassador in Mali, Amb. Ugo Chime, and popular actress, Abiola Bayo, who highlighted her mother’s ordeal on the program “Talk with, B” as well as Actor Niyi Johns, who was also in attendance.
Dabiri-Erewa welcomed Adeola and hoped that others would learn from her story, a story of being deceived into a job that never was.
She warned others to resist any temptation of any supposed job offers in Mali, saying it is a long journey to slavery.
She said she was promised, through someone close to her, to get employed in a Pharmacy in Mali, only to get there and be told she had been sold to a “ madam”, a move she was said to have vehemently resisted.
Adeola said she did not get in touch with her family out of a share of unfulfilled dreams and expressed happiness to be back.
Adeola had been living with her grandmother in Ibadan and was last seen after informing the family four years ago that she was traveling to Lagos.
Abiola Bayo, the host of the program, Talk with B, expressed deep gratitude to the Federal government for its speedy intervention.
