Five arrested for selling 2 babies for N1.1million

The Imo State Police Command on Monday paraded 49 suspects, including five members of a gang specialised in robbery and kidnapping.

Ezike said Obinna Eze, Oluchi Chibuike,Vitalis Lumanze, Nkiru Nwanedu, Chinyere Nwudu and one Jacinta, were arrested by the police for allegedly kidnapping and selling a five-year-old boy, Francis Nwachukwu and his two-year-old sibling, Chinaza Nwachukwu, for N1.1m.

The state Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike said the members of a syndicate operated in Imo and Enugu states and had perpetrated several crimes.

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Ezike said, “On August 29, 2017, Oluchi Chibuike, the cousin of one Abigail Uka, came to Uzoagba, in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State, in company with one Obinna Eze, who Oluchi Chibuike said was her intended husband.

“Their mission was to take Abigail and her two children – Francis Nwachukwu and Chimazaekpere Nwachukwu –to visit Obinna’s house at Afara, in the Mbaitoli LGA.”

The CP disclosed that Eze took Uka and her two children on his motorcycle at about 12pm to his residence. But unknown to the victim, Eze and Oluchi had concluded plans to attack her and take away her children.

The Police boss said Eze and Uka allegedly hired the services of one Vitalis Lumanze and Chinatu, who they paid N160,000 to attack her on their way back to Uzoagba in the Ikeduru LGA.

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“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 added.

The commissioner said in the morning of August 30, 2017, Oluchi and Obinna allegedly took the two children to Enugu State and sold them to one Nkiru Nwanedu for N1.1m.

He added that Nkiru resold the children to Jacinta Amadi of Egede in the Udi LGA of Enugu State.

Ezike said one of the members of the gang, Chinatu, who is currently at large would soon be apprehended.