This accusation was first leveled against the police by a Human Right Activist, Idam Emma and later supported by members of Amasiri Community, Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. It was gathered that the community had been repeatedly plagued by activities of child traffickers. Members of the community have been doing everything within the ambit of the law, to check the activities of these traffickers.
One of the recent moves a member of the community took was to go undergo cover and pose as a father, who wanted to sell his two kids. The idea was to uncover a suspected trafficker, who allegedly used to frequent Amasiri, to buy kids.
To uncover this trafficker, the community involved three policemen in the operation. The suspected trafficker fell for the ruse and was arrested. The community expressed shock to later discover that the trafficker was allowed to go, after the policemen allegedly collected a bribe of N2.5m from her.
The matter was reported at the police command and the policemen were detained. But after a while, the policemen were released. The outraged community members, including a traditional ruler, immediately petitioned the Governor of Ebonyi, Mr. Dave Umahi and the state’s commissioner of police. According to the petition, the action of the policemen would continue to make the community seem attractive to child traffickers.
One Onuabuchi Ikpor, a member of the community, who started the whole process of arresting the suspected trafficker, said he had watched and discovered ways most of the child traffickers operated. Thus, on June 8, 2016, Ikpor confided his observation to Idam Emma.
He told Emma how he witnessed sells of infants and pregnant teenagers within where his mother’s hotel was sited.https://newtelegraphonline.com/policemen-accused-collecting-n2-5m-bribe-free-trafficker/
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