Woman, 22, sells baby girl for N400,000 to spite her father
Imo state police have arrested a 22-year-old woman, Chiamaka Ukeje, for selling her uncle’s five-year-old daughter.
Ukeje, from Umuduru in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, was said to have confessed to the police that she sold the little girl just to “get back at her father.”
She also confessed that she sold the girl for a paltry sum of N400,000. The little girl, Chinagorom Ndukwe, is said to be the daughter of Ukeje’s uncle.
Police arrested three other suspects along with Ukeje.
The other suspects are Sandra Ezuka, 26, from Ozoro in Isoko LGA, Delta State; Ruth Solomon, 41, Umuehie Anara in the Isiala Mbano LGA; and Joy Edum, 45, from Abua, Odua LGA of Rivers.
The women reportedly served various jail terms in Federal Prisons, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where they met and allegedly formed a kidnap gang.
Parading the suspects and others for various crimes ranging from kidnapping, child trafficking, armed robbery and cultism on Thursday, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, said the four child trafficking suspects have made confessional statements.
The CP, who said the victim has been recovered from the buyer, Joy Edum, a resident of Rumwara Obiakpo, Rivers State, said the suspects would be charged to court at the end of investigation.
Ezike said, “The suspects, who are all residents of Rivers State, have made useful statements to the Police, confessing to the crime; while the child has since been reunited with her family.”
When interviewed by newsmen, the prime suspect, 22-year-old Chiamaka, said she kidnapped the child “in order to get at her father.”
Chiamaka claimed that her own father and the father of baby Chinagorom had some “problems” and that kidnapping Chinagorom was her own way of punishing the girls father. She described the man as her “uncle.”
