A 43 year old fake nurse, Uju
Okonkwo, now in police net in
Asaba, Delta State, has reportedly
sold a three month old baby to a
Lagos-based businessman for
N500,000.
Also a fake lawyer, Ezurum Joseph,
who claimed to have graduated
from the Nnamdi Azikwe University
(NAU ), Anambra State, in 2011 with
registration number 39017, was
arrested along with Okonkwo.
Over the years, Joseph has provided
the hideouts where Okonkwo was
using to harbour her victims and
has stood as the woman’s solicitor.
The said fake lawyer confessed that
he dropped out of school after he
could not pass four courses, which
prevented him from attending Law
School. However, Joseph has since
been defrauding unsuspecting
members of the public.
Three female human trafficking
victims, Chinyere Ude (19 ),
Happiness Igwe (20 ) and Esther
Frank (17 ), who were respectively
in their advanced stages of
pregnancy, were rescued from the
traffickers’ den.
The girls disclosed that they were
brought to the hideout by Okonkwo,
a widow, who claimed to have
worked at Chinonso Hospital, Nkpor
in Anambra State, for the purpose of
selling their babies after delivery.
Men of the Special Anti- Kidnapping
Squad (SAKS) raided the hideout on
Okpanam Road in Oshimili North
Local Government Area of the state,
after a tipoff that the three girls had
been kept there and would soon
deliver while their babies would be
sold to the highest bidders.
The state Commissioner of Police,
Zanna Ibrahim, who paraded the
suspects with the pregnant girls in
Asaba, said Okonkwo was nabbed
after an intensive surveillance by his
men.
Gnashing her teeth on the parade
ground, Okonkwo, who said she had
no registered name for her
organisation and had been in the
game with the lawyer for over one
year, confessed that she sold a baby
for N500,000 to a Lagos – based
businessman.
Ibrahim described the suspects as
human traffickers. He said: “The
matter before us is a complete case
of human trafficking and other
related offences. Only God knows
how many innocent children they
have sold into slavery, to unknown
persons for money rituals.
“The suspects have started helping
us in our investigations. ” The
commissioner said the war against
crimes must be won “to stop
careless wastage of lives and
property ”.
Appealing to parents and guardians
to be alive to their responsibilities
in providing proper guidance to
their children and wards, Ibrahim
said the suspects would soon be
arraigned.
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