Police charge couple, others to court for alleged child trafficking in Abia
Police charge couple, others to court for alleged child trafficking in Abia
WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL 2013 08:22 FROM GORDI UDEAJAH, UMUAHIA NEWS - METRO
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THE Abia State Police Command said that it has charged five persons to court, including a couple, for child-trafficking.
The Police Commissioner, Mr. Usman Tilling, told journalists in his office Monday in Umuahia, that following a tipoff to his Command on April 2, 2013, a couple, Mr. Uchechukwu Gabriel and his wife, Nneoma, were arrested for selling their new born baby girl to an unknown buyer for N200,000.
The Commissioner, who said that within his 42 days in office in Abia state, out of the four reported kidnap cases, three victims were rescued and set free without any payment of ransom while efforts to rescue the other were in progress.
Giving details of the other kidnap reports, Tilli said that on March 4, 2013, following the report made by Mr. Chidiebere Samuel of Ovungwu village in Isiala Ngwa South Local Council, that on February 26, 2013, his wife Odinakachi Samuel, delivered a baby girl but connived with the nurse, Monica Benjamin, that delivered her of the baby and sold the said baby for N150,000.
Similarly, that on March 6, 2013 Mrs. Ozioma Ekwelum, aged 20, of 13B Nwalozie Street, Aba, reported that her husband Onyekachi Ekwelum, aged 26, sold their only son, aged six, months whose name was given as Oluebubechukwu for N350,000 to enable him procure travel documents to Greece.
He said that the said sold child had been recovered in good health and handed over to the mother while the suspects have been charged to court.
In another case, the CP said that one Mr Oluchukwu Ogidi of Amaoji in IsialaNgwa South LGA reported that his wife Kelechi Amowse aged 25 years, connived with one Dr Williams Oruwa who delivered her of a baby boy and sold the said baby for N300,000.
Adding that the suspects have also been charged to court, CP Tilli said that three other pregnant women whose names he listed that were harboured by the said Dr Williams were being used as prosecution witnesses.
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