A man from Rivers State identified as Gospel Kinanee has been reunited with his relatives after being missing for eighteen years since his teenage disappearance.
His relatives say he was just fourteen when he walked away from home one night in 2007 and never came back.
They explained that they carried out an extensive search, checking police stations and other agencies, yet could not trace his whereabouts.
His brother mentioned that the Nigerian Correctional Service facility where he was eventually located had been visited two times during their search efforts.
He was among twenty‑one inmates freed from the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre during the Rivers State Jail Delivery Exercise overseen by Justice Simeon Amadi.
The family asserts that he never received a formal trial and was denied access to legal representation while detained.
They also learned that, although they knew him as Gospel Kinanee, the institution’s records listed him under the name Baridi Sunday.
Reports indicate that his mental health is currently under review in ongoing legal proceedings, prompting further inquiries into the circumstances of his disappearance, confinement, identity, and treatment over the past eighteen years.
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