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Okike Ezinne, an 18-year-old girl, from Isu Mbaneze in Ohaozara
Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has been arrested by the Enugu
State Police Command.
She was arrested for allegedly selling her one year and six months old baby.
Daily Post reports that the teenage mother sold her baby identified
as little Chisom Raphael for N300,000 (Three hundred thousand naira.)
According the spokesman of the police in Enugu State, SP Ebere
Amaraizu, Ezinne blamed her bosom friend for tricking her into selling
off her baby.
Amaraizu disclosed in the statement that the girl had the baby out
of wedlock and decided to keep it but was reportedly tricked to sell off
the baby by her friend, one Promise Godwin, a 20-year old single
mother.
He said that the suspect narrated that when things were no longer
going smoothly for her at home, her bosom friend identified as one
Promise Godwin, also from Isu Mbaneze Ohazara Local Government Area of
Ebonyi State approached her to come to Enugu with the child with a
promise that somebody was going to take care of Ezinne and little Chisom
Raphael.
“According to Ezinne, she later joined the friend in Enugu
where she secured an accommodation at Coal Camp axis but later found out
that the friend has abandoned her husband and was into commercial s*x
work at Four corners junction, Enugu to make ends meet.
“Sometime in the month of March 2016, Promise Godwin perfected
the purchase deal of little Chisom at the rate of N300, 000 with
46-year-old Gloria Okafor from Uturu but married to now late Sunday
Okafor of Umudi Lokpanta in Abia State whose major occupation is to get
and sell babies to prospective buyers within Uturu, lokpanta and its
environs,” the police spokesman said.
Amaraizu said that police gathered that following the establishment
of the sales understanding between Ezinne and Promise with Gloria
Okafor, little Chisom Raphael was taken to Limca bus stop at Okigwe, Imo
State, along Enugu Port-Harcourt Expressway, Okigwe where Chisom was
sold to Gloria Okafor at the rate of N300, 000 and money given to the
mother of Chisom in cash.
“On coming back to Enugu, the suspects shared the money as
follows:N200, 000 to Ezinne, the mother of the sold child, N50, 000 to
Promise, while the remaining N50, 000 went to the motorcyclist working
with Godwin Promise at the Four Corner Brothel where she is staying”, he added.
According to Amaraizu, Gloria Okafor, having been nabbed, revealed
how she bought the child from the duo of Ezinne and Promise but
maintained that the child was later handed over to the buyer that same
day and that the buyer was now at large and further revealed that Godwin
Promise, who is already 8-month pregnant and also with a child of one
year and a month, has also perfected arrangement to sell off the baby
whom she named Chiadikaobi to a prospective buyer before they were
nabbed by the operatives of the Central Police station of the Nigeria
Police, Enugu State command.
“Suspects are now helping police in their investigations and
begging for forgiveness but however blamed the situation to act of
satan.
“Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu,
has advised youths to know the type of friend they keep in order to
become meaningful to themselves and the entire society,” the PPRO noted.
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