security agents from the Imo State Police
Command have arrested a suspected human
trafficker from Abia State. The suspect was
arrested on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, through a
tip-off members of the public.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Austin
Evbakhavbokun, explained that the arrest of the
suspect was sequel to a report that one Miss
Ibuchi Okafor (20) had left her home. Okafor,
according to Evbakhavbokun, had earlier
absconded from her home with her baby and
returned without the child, a development that
raised suspicion that she sold the baby.
Upon interrogation, the state police commissioner,
who spoke through his Police Public Relation
Officer, DSP Andrew Enwerem, said Okafor
disclosed to the operatives that she was delivered
of a baby boy at the home of one Chief Emmanuel
Eke of Mbutu, in the Isiala Ngwa South Council
area of Abia State. Evbakhavbokun said Eke later
revealed that she sold the baby to a yet-to-be
identified buyer. He said that operatives of his
command stormed the home of Chief Emmanuel
Eke where other pregnant ladies believed to be
producing babies for sale were arrested.
While parading the suspects, the commissioner
identified the others as Nkasiobi Uchenna (23),
Ella David (24), Blessing Nwabekee, a deaf and
dumb, who could not state her age and address
and Oluchi Victor (25), who before the arrest,
reccruit ladies for Chief Eke. He added that in the
course of investigation, Eke confessed to the
crime and said that he sold the baby delivered by
Okafor to an undisclosed buyer at the cost of
N500,000
The police commissioner, however, assured that
the suspects would be charged to court for
trafficking children as soon as investigations were
over. Punch
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