Crime: 19-Year-Old Teenager Sells Day-Old Son, 3 Cousins For N700,000

A 19-year-old woman, Faith Nuhu who sold her only child to a suspected child trafficking syndicate at a paltry N100,000 and sold three of her cousins for N600,000 has landed into police net along with her accomplices.

Faith in September 2014 sold her day old son to Mrs Evelyn Ojiaku and kidnapped her three cousins, 13 years old Grace Musa Idris, 3 years old Philip Musa Idris and 2 years old Paul Musa Isaac from their Kafanchan, Kaduna State residence and also sold to Mrs Ojiaku.

According to police spokesman EmmanuelOjukwu who paraded six suspects in connection with the kidnapping and trafficking, Faith Nuhu and her accomplice, Chigozie Goodwill kidnapped the three children but discarded Grace Musa Idris along Abuja Jos highway.

The paraded suspects Faith Nuhu, Chigozie Goodwill, Mrs. Evelyn Ojiaku, John Ojiaku, Dr Amadi Uzoma and Elizabeth Oyemoabi were said to be operating a child trafficking outfit under the guise of a private hospital known as Royal Maternity/Clinic and Child Care Service around Umuiyi Akaba Ikeduru, off kilo meter 6, Owerri-Okigwe Road in Imo state. 

Police spokesman, Ojukwu said the suspects operated an illegal child trafficking syndicate involved in the buying and selling of abducted children and in turn sell them out to unsuspecting citizens in need of children for adoption.

Luck ran out of a child trafficking syndicate when eagled eyed police detectives began investigation into the abduction of the three siblings and uncovered the activities of the syndicate. 

According to Ojukwu, investigation into the reported kidnapping of the siblings by detectives of the Force Analytical Tracking and Interception Centre (ATIC) traced the GSM contacts of the suspects to Owerri in Imo state.

He said further analytical tracking led to the arrest of the first suspect Faith Nuhu and second suspect Chigozie Goodwill in Edo state. They confessed how they kidnapped the three victims in Kafanchan, Kaduna state and discarded Grace Musa Idris the oldest victim along Abuja-Jos highway.

“While the two minors Philip Musa Idris and Paul Musa Isaac were delivered to the third suspect Mrs. Evelyn Ojiaku at the cost of N600, 000,” Ojukwu said.

The PRO said Evelyn Ojiaku used her facility for trading children with the connivance of another suspect John Ojiaku her biological son.

He added that the fifth suspect a medical doctor, Dr Amadi Godwin Ozuma provided medical services in the Evelyn’s hospital.

Ojukwu said Evelyn Ojiaku has confessed that she earlier bought a day old biological male child of the first suspect Faith Nuhu at the cost of N100, 000 in September 2014, before she later supplied her two cousin brothers Philip Musa Idris and Musa Isaac for N600, 000.

He said Evelyn Ojiaku admitted selling the first child sold to her by Faith Nuhu to one Angele a female resident of Lagos State at the cost of N300, 000 in September 2014, and confessed to buying five more children and has sold them to different families.

Ojukwu said Ojiaku also confessed to have been assisted in selling the children by the 6th accused person Mrs. Onyemuobi Elizabeth, an Auditor in the Imo state civil service.

He disclosed that all the children have been traced and recovered from their adopted parents, some of who adopted the children without knowledge of the illegal activities of the fake child-care centre.

Ojukwu caution Nigerian seeking to adopt children to follow approved channels and not to patronize ‘child harvesters,’ stating that ignorance of the law is not an excuse. He said all the suspects will soon be charged in court.

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