The fake lawyer, Ezurum Joseph & fake nurse, Uju Okonkwo
The gallant officials of the Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad (SAKS)
of the Nigerian Police in Asaba, the Delta State capital, has arrested a
43-year-old fake nurse, Uju Okonkwo, who reportedly sold a 3-month-old
baby to a Lagos-based businessman for N500,000.
The force has also nabbed a fake lawyer, Ezurum Joseph, who claimed
to have graduated from the Nnamdi Azikwe University (NAU), Anambra
State in 2011 with registration number 39017, along with Okonkwo.
According to a report by New Telegraph, over the years, Joseph has
provided the hideouts where Okonkwo was using to harbour her victims and
has stood as the woman’s solicitor.
The fake lawyer confessed that he dropped out of school after he
could not pass four courses, which prevented him from attending Law
School. However, Joseph has since been defrauding unsuspecting members
of the public.
Three female human trafficking victims, Chinyere Ude (19),
Happiness Igwe (20) and Esther Frank (17), who were respectively in
their advanced stages of pregnancy, were rescued from the traffickers’
den.
The girls disclosed that they were brought to the hideout by
Okonkwo, a widow, who claimed to have worked at Chinonso Hospital, Nkpor
in Anambra State, for the purpose of selling their babies after
delivery.
The state Commissioner of Police, Zanna Ibrahim, who paraded the
suspects with the pregnant girls in Asaba, said Okonkwo was nabbed after
an intensive surveillance by his men. Gnashing her teeth on the parade
ground, Okonkwo, who said she had no registered name for her
organisation and had been in the game with the lawyer for over one year,
confessed that she sold a baby for N500,000 to a Lagos-based
businessman.
Ibrahim described the suspects as human traffickers. He said: “The
matter before us is a complete case of human trafficking and other
related offences. Only God knows how many innocent children they have
sold into slavery, to unknown persons for money rituals.
“The suspects have started helping us in our investigations.” The commissioner said the war against crimes must be won “to stop careless wastage of lives and property”.
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