Commissioner of Police, CP,
Mr. Murtala Mani, weekend, said a syndicate that specialised in trafficking
babies was busted by the anti-kidnapping unit of the force in Akwa-Ibom.
According to him, a woman,
Comfort Edem, was arrested on October 13, following intelligence report that
she had been running an illegal maternity home for the purpose of trading in
children.
Mani, who spoke through the
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Cordelia Nwawe, noted that the
suspects sold the trafficked children at N450,000 each. According to him, “the
suspects went after pregnant teenagers and negotiated the prices of the unborn
children with them and once the babies were born, they would be given to the
traffickers.
“Information at our
disposal led to the interception of a syndicate which traffic babies in Akwa
Ibom. On October 13, the anti-kidnapping unit intercepted a woman who owns an
illegal maternity home. “She specialises in making sure that she takes in
pregnant teenagers.
Once the babies are born,
those babies are sold and trafficked out of Akwa Ibom. As a matter of fact, the
girls had reliably informed us that this is not the first time they had sold
their babies for N450,000 each.” He also said another syndicate, who sold
children for N500,000 each, was also smashed, adding that the police had
rescued a two-month old girl who had been sold to a woman in Rivers State.
GOD FORGIVE US. VERY SERIOUS CASE
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