Baby thieves
Police IG
Police IG
The Imo police command yesterday paraded two middle-aged women and a man over alleged involvement in child trafficking. Parading the suspects, Patience (55), a native of Oredoa, in Edo State, Felicia from Egoredo, also in Edo State and Jacob (41) from Ado-Ekiti in Ekiti State, at the command’s headquarters in Owerri, capital of Imo State, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joy Elemoko, said the suspects were intercepted on the Owerri/Port Harcourt road when they could not convince the police that the two new born babies were theirs.
According to the PPRO, the two women live at 14 Densan, Ikorodu, Lagos State but had left their base on March 27, 2013 for Port Harcourt with a motive of stealing the two babies, while the driver, who operates from Lagos to Port Harcourt, lives at Ajunwa Street Ifekoja, Lagos State . “The suspects left Lagos for Port Harcourt on 27th March 2013 and abducted the babies only 72 hours after delivery but were caught while trying to escape to Lagos at House of Assembly Junction, Owerri.”