On Tuesday Abia State Police Command, paraded a 71-year-old man, said to
be a retired pastor, for allegedly stealing a one year-old baby.
The suspect was arrested alongside his wife by the police, following an
alarm said to have been raised by the mother of the baby.
Abia State Police Commissioner, Mr. Joshak Habila, who paraded the
suspects, said the arrests were part of the achievements of his command
for the month of August.
He said a month ago, a 21-year-old pregnant mother reported that she
lost her 11 months old baby to a supposed friend under the pretence of
offering help to her.
The police boss said luck, however, ran out on the supposed friend, when
the anti- robbery squad of the command intercepted him at Owerrinta and
arrested him for allegedly trafficking pregnant girls to Port Harcourt,
Rivers State capital.
He said the arrest led to the discovery of a child, who was previously
stolen in Aba and allegedly sold to the retired pastors’ wife, who was
said to have kept the deal away from her husband.
According to Habila, the suspect sold the baby for N500,000 to the wife
of a pastor who allegedly lied to her husband that she went through the
normal process of adoption for the baby.
The wife of the pastor, the commissioner explained, admitted to have
paid for the baby in the premises of Federal Medical Centre, FMC, in
Umuahia, through her friend, one Maria Mba, said to a senior civil
servant in Bende Local Government Area.
But her pastor husband denied knowledge of the illegal adoption of the
baby, saying he had been requesting from his wife the adoption documents
which he claimed he never saw till date.
The other suspects, Maria Mba and Ekwutosi, also explained their role in
the transaction, with Ekwutosi saying he connected Maria to the illegal
deal.
He claimed that Mba approached him and requested for baby girl which he
arranged for and procured, after which he invited them to the FMC where
the deal was finally sealed.
Though Mba said she collected the money and gave to Ekwutosi N400,000
and kept N100,000 as part of her share of the deal, Ekwutosi denied
receiving the money from her
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Pastor, wife,others accused of child trafficking in Abia State
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