The Imo State Police
Command on Friday paraded
three suspects, including two
middle aged women and a
41-year-old man who were
arrested for alleged child trafficking. The Police Public Relations
Officer, PPRO, Mrs. Joy
Elemoko gave the names of
the suspects as 55-year old
Mrs. Patience Aibangbe, Mrs.
Felicia Edegbe (59) from Ihude Egonebo village, Edo
State and Jacob Ademuyiwa,
41, from Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. According to the PPRO, the
two female suspects took off
from their 14 Densan Street,
Ikorodu, Lagos, Wednesday,
March 27, 2013, for Port
Harcourt, Rivers State, with a view to stealing or abducting
twin babies barely 72 hours
after delivery. Elemoko said the suspects
were arrested within the
Command’s area of
jurisdiction while they were
on their way back to Lagos,
adding that the driver obviously knew that the
consignment he was
conveying was illegal. “The offence is conspiratorial
in nature. Anybody found
within the cycle of conspiracy
is definitely an accomplice
and would be made to face
the full weight of the laws,” the PPRO said. The PPRO who confirmed
that the original scene of
crime was at Uzoma village,
Oyibo local government area
of Rivers State said the
suspects are not indigenes of Imo State. On of the suspects who spoke
to newsmen, Aibangbe
claimed that she lives in
Lagos with her husband and
has been having serious
challenges with bearing children for years. People
concerned about her
predicament she said
introduced her to a Port
Harcourt based woman
simply identified as Mrs. Okoro, who promised to
solve her nagging problem. “She gave me some herbs in
June last year. About one
month after, she told me that
I was pregnant and carrying
twin babies. She also asked
me not go for scan. In January this year, the woman
came to Lagos and told me
that I will deliver in March
and will only be in Port
Harcourt,” the suspect
recounted. The prime suspect said she
was given a date but she
decided to travel to Port
Harcourt on March 27, 2013,
pointing out that her total
expenditure stood at N1.8 million.
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