We Sold Our Day-Old Baby For N250, 000 – Wife Of A Wheelbarrow Pusher

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We Sold Our Day-Old Baby For N250, 000 – Wife Of A Wheelbarrow Pusher

OPERATIVES of the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Team in Rivers State have nabbed a couple who sold their day-old baby to a suspected human trafficker.

The family told Sunday Vanguard that they sold the baby to settle debt and relocate from the village to the city.

The couple, according to the Commander in charge of the IGP Monitoring Team in the state, Benneth Igweh, alongside the suspected traffickers, regretted their action, but stated that if they had money they would not have involved the act.

The mother of the baby, Chidinma Richard, 29, narrated that she had fallen sick during pregnancy and borrowed money to treat herself, adding that the husband is a wheelbarrow pusher.

Chidinma also disclosed that her husband, Benson, earlier did not accept her advice to sell the baby, saying he changed his mind after seeing the reality of their situation.

She said: “I am from Isiala Mbano, Imo State. I was arrested by the police because I sold my day-old baby. I sold him for N250, 000 through one Ugonma.

“I sold the child because of our condition. I have given birth to four children. One died because of our situation. We are left with two children now.

Prime suspect, Eucharia, and husband

“I never wanted to give birth to another child after two children but this one happened by mistake. When I gave birth to this one, I told my husband that we should sell him.

“My intention was for us to use the money to settle our debt and then relocate to Umuahia in Abia State. All these happened because my husband is not working, we have been living in my village and I wanted us to relocate.

“When I got pregnant again, I was involved in an accident so I borrowed money to treat myself and meet other needs. When they took the baby, I cried, but I had no alternative.”

I bought four children within a year -Suspect

Meanwhile, the prime suspected trafficker, who allegedly bought the baby from the couple, Mrs. Eucharia Jaja, 48, told Sunday Vanguard that she had trafficked four children out of Nigeria within the last 12 months.

The mother of four said: “It is over a year since I joined this business. One late Rose, a traditional birth attendant, introduced me into this business. She introduced me to Ikechi Nwayanwu, who is also in the business.

“The woman we sold the little baby to has taken him and travelled to Lagos. I sold the baby for N750, 000. I have sold about four children with the last one year that I joined the business.

“We don’t get babies every time; it is not something you get every time. My husband does not know much about the business because he is a tailor.

“What I do is to tell him to drive me sometimes when I want to go and deliver a baby. It is only twice he drove me. I am a nurse before I joined the business”.

My mother was a trafficker – Another suspect

Another suspect, Ikechi Nwanyanwu, disclosed that he inherited trafficking from his repentant mother, adding that he calls buyers when babies are available.

She said: “It is not up to one year since I joined this business. I am a driver. It was my mother who was doing the business then. After she had issues with Anti-Cultism Unit of the Police she stopped. I was called by a lady to help call the woman who bought the child from Eucharia.”

Igweh, a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), stated that the police had commenced investigation into the case while the search to recover the baby had started.

*Suspected human traffickers

He said: “On the 8th of October, based on reliable information about a notorious child trafficking cartel operating in Obigbo/Afam in Oyigbo Local Government Area and Omuagwa and Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rives State, operatives of the IGP Monitoring Team burst a hotel in Afam and rescued six pregnant women whose babies would be trafficked upon delivery.

“Information further revealed that on the 7th of October, one Richard Benson and his wife, Chidinma Benson, delivered a baby boy at a maternity home also in Afam and owned by a quack nurse.

“After the delivery, the parents of the baby were paid N200, 000 by Mrs. Rose Onyia and the baby was later sold to Eucharia Jaja at Omuagwa at the rate of N550, 000. Eucharia, in turn, sold the baby to her client in Lagos.

“The syndicate has trafficked hundreds of children across the globe. They specialize in luring vulnerable pregnant mothers, married and unmarried, harbor them for months and then take them to illegal maternity homes for delivery”.

 

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