Operatives of Lagos State Police command have uncovered and arrested three members of a child buying and selling syndicates who specialize in stealing children and selling them outside Lagos.
It was gathered that the on May 2018, the Command received a complaint from one Nwoagbo Ekene of 27 Test Oluwale street, Olodi Apapa, that on same date, at about 11:00hrs when his two-year-old daughter suddenly disappeared and all efforts made to trace her
whereabouts proved abortive. Based on his complaint, the Command Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, directed the officer in charge of the Anti-kidnapping Squad, SP Musa Bulus to use all the assets at his disposal to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of the little girl. It was reported that the investigation was instituted and in the course of it, one Ms. Joy Okoye, 28, of No.64 Kirikiri street, Olodi Apapa was arrested in connection with the case. On interrogation, the suspect revealed that she and one Amarachi , a female who is still at large, stole the child and sold her for three hundred thousand Naira (N300, 000.00) to one Ms. Uju Obieze, female, 40, of No.8 Okwe road, Asaba, Delta state. While acting on this revelation, detectives proceeded to Asaba and apprehended the said Uju on September 13, 2018. The said Uju was said to have confessed that she bought the child from Joy Okoye but added that the deal was done jointly with one Ifeyinwa Ezene, female, 46, of No.2, Eze Bishop street, Onitsha, Anambra state, where Ifeyinwa Ezene was apprehended. She also confessed to the crime by corroborating the statements of the other two suspects, adding that the child had been resold to one Ifeoma Okoye, female, who lives in Enugu.
The trio led detectives to No.40, Amaechi street off Agbani road, Enugu, where, on September 14, 2018, the victim was rescued from the relatives of the said Ifeoma Okoye who were mourning her, having died a week earlier. The police said the little girl has been reunited with her parents.
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