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Grandma, mother sell newborn baby for N250,000 in Lagos by Vlad(m) : 7:21 am |
Operatives of the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, have started investigation into the alleged trafficking of a day old baby on Jakande Estate, in the Oshodi Isolo area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the baby was taken from the mother, Blessing Emmanuel, by the grandmother, Patience, on the day he was born. He was reportedly handed over to one Ijeoma Okechukwu, a former neighbour of the Emmanuels on Shola Adewunmi Street. A few days after Okechukwu took the baby, she was said to have paid Blessing and her mother N250,000. It was learnt that 22-year-old Blessing told residents that her baby was dead. She later opened up to a church member, Comfort Ogwuebu, who helped her family with accommodation, that her child was with Okechukwu. Ogwuebu reportedly alerted policemen from the Zone 2 Police Command, who arrested the suspect and recovered the child. The woman, who is a lawyer, said during a parade on Tuesday that she was initially told that the baby died from convulsion and epilepsy. She said,
Ogwuebu said she was not satisfied with the explanation and prodded Blessing, who confessed that the baby was sold to Okechukwu. She said she alerted the police and Okechukwu, who was her former tenant, was arrested. Blessing told PUNCH Metro that she had earlier had a child for her boyfriend, one Valentine, who got her pregnant the second time. She said she resisted the pressure to abort the pregnancy because she didn’t want to die. The Akwa Ibom State indigene said she was bothered about what would become of the baby when her mother told her Okechukwu had agreed to take him after delivery. She said,
Blessing said while part of the money was used to pay for the school fees of her three siblings and first child, some were used to settle family debts. She said the rest of the money, which was kept in the kitchen, was stolen. The suspect told PUNCH Metro that her pastor’s wife asked her to pray for forgiveness after learning the whole truth, while her pastor only counselled her. Blessing said the bubble burst when her troubled conscience made her to confess to Ogwuebu, who had shown concern about her deteriorating health condition. Her mother, Patience, 39, said she had been weighed down by the burden of caring for her three children and Blessing’s first child before she came home with a second unwanted pregnancy. The widow woman said she saw Okechukwu’s intervention as an answer to prayer, adding that she thought her assistance would help the family out of poverty. The alleged buyer, Okechukwu, 35, said she was only helping the family. She noted that the matter got to the police because her former landlady, Ogwuebu, had scores to settle with her over the manner she left her house.
She said she relocated to the Ikeja area in January and had no intention of keeping the child away from the mother. Asked if she was not driven by desperation to have a child after three years of marriage, the Anambra State indigene said she once had a child that died, adding that she was not desperate. The Zone 2 Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Dolapo Badmos, said the case involved obtaining money under false pretences, threat to life and child trafficking. She noted that the policemen alleged to have been involved in the illegal transaction had been identified and would be disciplined. “We have recovered the baby and all the suspects are in custody. We are still unravelling what truly happened because we suspect that it is a long chain of trafficking. The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2, Adamu Ibrahim, has directed that the case be thoroughly investigated and the culprits prosecuted,†she added. — PUNCH
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