A thirty-year old woman,
Peace Chukwuemeka, was arrested for stealing a month-old baby from her mother Akwa
Ibom State Police Command confirmed.
It was alleged that
Chukwuemeka drugged the mother of the baby before stealing the child.
The state Police
Commissioner, Mr Murtala Mani, said this while speaking with journalists on the
activities of the command in Uyo on Tuesday.
Mani, who spoke through the
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Cordelia Nwawe, stated that the
suspect lived in the same compound with the mother of the baby at Mbak Itam in
Itu Local Government Area.
He added that the family
unit of the command, acting on intelligence, rescued the baby and handed it
over to the mother.
“Let us say clearly that in
the month of November, the Acid Section through the Family Unit of the Nigeria
Police Force in Akwa Ibom was able to record a great feat by bringing back a
one-month-and-some-few-days-old baby to her mother in Akwa Ibom.
“The suspected woman, who
has been married for some years without giving birth to a baby, left Lagos
State for Uyo, stayed in a compound in Mbak Itam with the intention to steal a
baby from her neighbour.
“The Family Unit of the
command, through intelligence report, was able to rescue the baby,” Mani said.
Mani added that the police
also rescued a four-year-old boy from a young man, who snatched him from his
mother at gun point.
Confessing to the crime,
Peace Chukwuemeka, said she had married for 10 years without giving birth to a
child and had been desperate to have a baby.
She, however, denied
drugging the mother of the baby.
“I did not give anything to
the mother; it was a coincidence that she was asleep and seized that
opportunity to take the baby.
“I have been married for 10
years now, so I need a baby of my own. I took the baby to my mother in the
village but she refused to collect her from me. I came back to Akwa Ibom and
the mother of the baby started asking me of her baby and I was arrested,” Chukwuemeka
confessed.
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