Barely 2 weeks
after the Imo state police arrested a gang of suspected child traffickers,
another gang of two women, Mrs Patience Aibangbe, aged 55 years from
Oredo and Mrs Felicia Edegbe, 59 years, from Egorebo village, both of Edo state
and a man, Jacob Ademuyiwa, 41 years from Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state have been
arrested in Owerri.
Parading the
suspects at the command headquarters in Owerri, the state capital, the
command's public relations officer, Mrs Joy Elemoko said the 2 babies were
allegedly abducted 72 hours after their deliveries by the women.
She maintained
that the scene of crime was in Uzoma village in Oyibo LGA of Rivers state but
the suspects were apprehended by the command's ambush squad while on their way
back to Lagos where they reside at number 14 Densan, Ikorodu enroute Imo state.
The PPRO said
the Officers became suspicious of the women and babies during a stop and search
where the women could not give useful explanations about the babies pointing
that neither of them is the real mother of the babies.
While making
confessional statements, Mrs Felicia Edegbe claimed that she knew nothing about
the abduction as she was only called to come assist her friend whom she thought
was pregnant while Mrs Patience Aibangbe who said she has been married for about
20 years but without a child, denied stealing or buying the babies. She
narrated how she was administered with herbs by one Mrs okoro whom she was
introduced to last year which made her appear to be pregnant. She claimed to
have eventually paid the sum of one point six five million naira(1,650,000) to
the said woman.
The PPRO
stressed that child trafficking is conspiratorial in nature and warned the
general public to desist from the ungodly act as anybody found within the
circle will be dealt with accordingly. She said the suspects will soon be
charged to court.
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