Imo State Police Command recorded another success
in its renewed fight against crime and criminals, following the bursting of
child trafficking and baby factory syndicate in the state.
Disclosing this to newsmen, at
the State Police Headquarters, Owerri, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed
Katsina, said the Command has clamped down on illegal motherless babies homes,
as well as rescued 17 pregnant teenagers.
According to the Imo police boss, one of the
illegal homes, Ahamefula Motherless Babies Home, located in Umuaka, Njaba local
council area, is allegedly owned by a middle aged woman simply identified as
“Madam One Thousand”.
Mr. Katsina equally disclosed that during the
police raid, no fewer than 11 minors, who were possibly waiting to be sold to
prospective buyers, were rescued by the Command.
The bizarre aspect of the police finding was that
a 23-year old boy, simply identified as Oyibo, was fingered as being
responsible for impregnating the expectant girls, whose ages ranged between 14
and 17.
Apart from being in varying stages of pregnancy,
the girls who equally looked malnourished and not properly catered for wept
uncontrollably as they were paraded by the police in Owerri.
On how the Command burst the syndicate, the
Commissioner explained that the illegal babies home was successfully raided by
the “Ambush Squad” after a credible tip-off.
“The prime suspect is now at large. She was was
producing pure water sachets as a decoy to deceive unsuspecting members of the
public about what was really going on in the premises”, the Commissioner of
Police recounted.
Continuing, Mr. Katsina said: “When the police
invaded the tightly secured compound, 17 minors were seen holed up in different
rooms in the large compound with some of their children playing around”.
The Imo police boss equally paraded the 55-year
old security man, Mr. Uzoamaka Okoli, from Nempi, Oru West local government
area of the state, employed by the fleeing owner of the babies home.
The 23-year old Oyibo, who was equally paraded by
the Commissioner, has allegedly confessed to being responsible for all the
pregnancies.
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