A 40-year-old man, Daniel Nnamdi Alagbu, is missing after going for an early morning workout in the Sangotedo area of Lagos State.

Sunday morning workout has been a routine for Alagbu. THE WHISTLER gathered that on May 19, he went for his usual workout and never returned.

His disappearance has created panic among his family members who are devastated and anxiously hoping that nothing bad has befallen him.

It has been over a month and there is no trace of his whereabouts.

“He usually does workout from the house to Monastery Road every Sunday. He lives by 6:00am and comes back 8:30am,” his wife, Amara Alagbu, told THE WHISTLER. “That particular Sunday, he did the same and never returned.”

Amara explained that her husband has been engaging in the weekly exercise for about one year.

There is no sign that Alagbu was kidnapped as none of his family members has been contacted for ransom.

Amara said the case has been reported at both Ogombo and Ajiwe Police Stations.

“We’ve reported it to Ogombo police Station and Ajiwe Police Station,” she said when asked if the police have been informed.

“They told us that since we’ve not been contacted for ransom, that means it’s not kidnapping. They suggested that my husband could’ve fallen into the hands of ritualists. But we didn’t believe that because there’s nothing to prove that.”

She said they were later told to report the case at the state police headquarters in Ikeja.

Alagbu sells and also fixes phones at Ikota Shopping Complex, along the Lekki-Epe Expressway. His family is suspecting that a customer he had issue with could be behind his disappearance. The customer had accused Alagbu of selling off original battery of his child’s iPad he gave him to fix, and replaced it with an inferior one. According to the wife, her husband never did that. She said the husband even went to the extent of buying a new battery for the iPad so that peace could reign. But instead of letting go, she said the man continued to make trouble and threatened to deal with her husband.

“He had issue with one customer like that and they didn’t settle well,” she said. “This happened on Monday, and on Sunday the incident happened. Even before that, the wife of the customer had been threatening my husband. But he didn’t take it serious. He thought it was just the usual customer-seller disagreement.”

Amara said the family narrated what transpired between Alagbu and the customer to the police, with the hope that the man and his wife will be invited for questioning.

Efforts by THE WHISTLER to speak with the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, proved abortive as he did not respond to his calls or reply to a message sent to him.