A 19-year-old Nigerian student studying at York University (YORKU), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has been missing since the 20th of March.
Amina
Lawal, who studies at the university's Schulich School of Business, disappeared without trace on her 19th birthday.
Her
mother, Funmiloya Odusola, said Lawal called on that day to say she was on
her way back home from a meeting at York University but has not been heard from
or seen since then.
“She called me around 6:30 to say she was on her way, and that’s the last time I heard from her,” Odusola told Torontoist last week.
The
distraught mother says it is “very, very unusual” for her daughter to disappear
for several days, believing it is a case of kidnapping.
“She’s
a very good girl. She’s an A student, she volunteers, she’s very athletic, she
loves music and she likes to help," Inside Toronto quoted
Odusola as saying.
"One
thing I know for sure, she would never leave voluntarily. ... I think maybe
somebody kidnapped her.
"I’m
just praying every day that she’s alive.”
Toronto
police have since appealed to the public for information on her whereabouts
with concerns that she might be in danger.
In a
recent statement police say they are “concerned for her safety.”
“We are
concerned for her safety,” Constable Victor
Kwong said.
They
say the student was last seen on Friday, March 20, 2015, in the Kingston Road
and Beechgrove Drive area.
Lawal
is described as black, 5’2”, and approximately 100 pounds with a thin build and
long, braided hair, CTV News
Toronto reports.
People
who are helping to find Lawal have been using the hashtags #FindAmina and #HelpFindAmina on social media.
Anyone
with information about her whereabouts is asked to call the 43 Division at
416-808-4300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).