Mr Onyekachi Ekwelum, who allegedly sold his six-month-old son
to raise funds to process his travel documents, would be appearing before
a magistrate in court to defend his action.
Mr Ekwelum allegedly hatched and executed the act without the consent of the
wife, but the lid was blown off by his 20-year-old spouse Ozioma when she could
not find their son and reported the matter to the police. Her husband had
wanted to travel to Greece.
The Abia State commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Abubakar Tilli, who disclosed
this to newsmen in his office on Monday, said the police mounted a man
hunt that led to the rescue of the child and the arrest of the suspects.
CP Tilli warned criminals to stay off the state as there would be no
hiding place for them and said the suspects have been charged to court.
The Commissioner who expresses concern over spate of child
trafficking said that on March 4 this year Mr Chidiebere Samuel of Ovungwu
in IsialaNgwa south Local government area that his wife Odinaka Samuel connived
with a nurse Monica Benjamin who delivered her baby girl and sold the
child at N150, 000.
Describing such acts as inhuman, he said the suspects in the
criminal transaction have been apprehended and charged to an Umuahia
Magistrate court.
In a similar incident in Amoji Isiala Ngwa
north local government the commissioner said that a man Mr
Oluchukwu Ogidi reported that his wife Kelechi on March 16 connived with
one Dr Williams Oruwa who delivered her baby and sold the newborn baby boy for
N350.He also said the suspects have been arrested and charged to
court even as he revealed that in the course of investigation three
pregnant women allegedly harbored by the suspect possibly to have their babies
sold after delivery were discovered.
