The police in Abia
arrested no fewer than seven
child-trafficking suspects in
the last one month, the
Commissioner of Police, Mr
Usman Tilli, said in Umuahia on Monday. Tilli said that the suspects
were apprehended between
March 4 and April 2 and
expressed displeasure over
the circumstances under
which the suspects committed the crime. He said that a 26-year-old
man in Aba allegedly sold his
six months old son for
N350,000 to enable him to
get a travelling document to
Greece. The commissioner said on
March 16 a man from Amaoji
in Isiala-Ngwa South Local
Government Area of Abia
reported that his wife
connived with a doctor to sell their baby. He said that the new born
baby boy was sold for
N300,000 by the doctor who
allegedly delivered it. Tilli said that the doctor had
been charged to court while
three other pregnant women
he haboured in his baby
factory were used as
prosecution witnesses. He said that a couple were
also arrested for selling their
new born baby for N200,000
to someone, who was still at
large. Tilli said the command would
stop at nothing to ensure
that the state was rid of
child- traffickers.
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