The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a lady,
who connived with her boyfriend, to sell her four-year-old niece for N350, 000.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), a Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP), Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the incident,
said it all started after the victim, simply identified as Chinecherem
Irechukwu, a primary school pupil of Unity Primary School, at Inyi in Oji River
Local Government Area of Enugu, seemed to vanish into thin air.
Amaraizu said: “It started on December 15, 2016,
around 12: 45pm, at Inyi in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State. It
was reported that Chinecherem went missing. The disappearance of the girl threw
the entire family, especially her mother, into panic and confusion.”
The image maker said that the matter was referred to
the Gender and Anti-human Trafficking Section of the State Criminal
Intelligence and Investigations Department (SCID), headed by a Superintendent
of Police (SP), Udoka Gloria.
In the course of the investigation, Miss. Chinedu Chukwu,
younger sister to Chinecherem’s mother, was arrested.
Amaraizu said that it was based on the confessions
of Chukwu, that her lover, Osunkwo Chinonso, was arrested.
Amaraizu further said: “Investigations revealed that
the lovers, on that fateful day, conspired and came into Enugu from Anambra State.
They headed to the school, where little Chinecherem was tricked and whisked
away to Umuahia, Abia State, precisely to Ihe Olokoro. She was sold to Florence
Nwokocha for 350,000. Police have arrested Florence, who assisted the
operatives to recover Chinecherem on January, 16, 2017. The little girl was
kept at Faulks Road, Aba, Abia State, awaiting the arrival of another buyer,
when she was rescued.”
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