The Delta State Police Command has arrested two ladies in reference to a child-stealing syndicate, rescuing a three-day-old child within the course of.
PUNCH On-line gathered that on Independence Day, October 1, 2024, a tricycle rider, whose id was withheld, reported suspicious exercise to the police.
Based on him, 4 ladies boarded his tricycle, and when two alighted on the Effurun roundabout, one handed over a new child child to the opposite two ladies left within the tricycle.
He overheard one of many ladies saying, “The steadiness has been paid,” instructing the others to tell her upon reaching their vacation spot.
Sensing foul play, the tricycle rider diverted the remaining two ladies, later recognized as Tessi Ikechukwu and Lauretta Akomen, to the Ekpan Police Station.
Police investigations revealed that Akomen, 38, had bought the infant for ₦2 million from a standard dwelling in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the place teenage women are stored and impregnated by males, after which the infants are offered to people determined for youngsters.
Akomen confessed that she had been given a drug that made her seem pregnant to hold out the scheme.
She later led the police to the residence of 1 Gloria, who acted as an middleman between her and the standard dwelling.
Each ladies are at present in police custody, whereas a manhunt for different accomplices continues.
Reacting to the incident, Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, counseled the tricycle rider “for his vigilance and patriotic act,” urging the general public to emulate him.
