Members of the group
include Obinna Eze, Oluchi Chibuike,Vitalis Lumanze, Nkiru Nwanedu, Chinyere
Nwudu and one Jacinta, who reportedly abducted and sold a five-year-old boy,
Francis Nwachukwu and his two-year-old sibling, Chinaza Nwachukwu, for N1.1m.
A syndicate that specialize
in stealing and selling children and operating in Imo and Enugu states , have
been arrested by the Imo State Police Command.
“On August 29, 2017, Oluchi
Chibuike, the cousin of one Abigail Uka, came to Uzoagba, in the Ikeduru LGA of
Imo State, in company with one Obinna Eze, who Oluchi said was her intended
husband.
Their mission was to take
Abigail and her two children to visit Obinna’s house at Afara, in the Mbaitoli
LGA”, Ezike said.
The suspects who hired two prime suspects Vitalis Lumanze and Chinatu who
they paid N160,000 to attack them on their way back, so they can take away her
children. Uka’s children were then driven on a motorcycle to Eze’s residence.
“At about 7pm of the same
day, along Amankuta Mbieri, a lonely bush path, the two hired men attacked the
victim and dumped her inside the bush, thinking that she had died. Obinna and
Oluchi took the two children back to Obinna’s house,” he said.
After their plan paid off,
Oluchi and Obinna allegedly took the two children to Enugu State and sold them
to one Nkiru Nwanedu for N1.1m on 30th August, 2017.
“Nkiru Nwanedu, 45, resold
the children to one Jacinta Amadi of Egede in the Udi LGA of Enugu State,”
Ezike added. Ezike said the only fleeing member of the gang, identified as
Chinatu, would soon be arrested.
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