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Thirty-year-old woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Elom from Umuoru Ezzangbo in Ohaukwu
local government area of Ebonyi State has been arrested by police for allegedly
stealing and selling a two-year old girl, Favour Onwe for the sum of N100, 000.
While parading the woman at the police headquarters Abakaliki yesterday, the
state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Sylvester Igbo, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP) said on July 16, 2012 the parents of the child,
Mr. Aloysius 62 and Mrs. Ngozi Onwe 48 raised the alarm of the missing of the
little girl without knowing that it was the aunt of the child who stole and
sold her. He said that one Nkurika Okonkwo who is still at large bought the
child for N100, 000 from one Izuchukwu Okeke from Awka South in Anambra State,
Nigeria saying that the woman who bought her took to her heels when she got
wind that police were looking for her. According to him, “The sister of the
father of the child was discovered to be the person that stole the child and
took her to Awka in Anambra State where she had contact with the man who
connected her to the woman who bought the child. “The man who connected her to
the woman is one Izuchukwu Okeke from Awka South in Anambra State, Nigeria. So,
the person that was alleged to have bought the child is called Nkurika Okonkwo,
though the woman is at large. When the woman got wind of police presence in the
matter, she abandoned the child and took to her heels and the police came to
recover the child. “The police have been trying to track the woman but it has
not yielded any result, we are still looking for the woman. So when the child
was brought here, the parent came and identified the child as their child. This
happened at Ohaukwu but was later transfered to the headquarters”, explained. On
how the child was recovered, the PPRO said: “The person that stole the child is
an aunt to the child and when the child was missing, she was worried and was
looking for the child, until we got information that she was the last person
seen with the child. When the police mounted pressure and interrogated her, she
confessed to the crime saying she sold the child at the sum of N100, 000. That
is how police got to know the mystery surrounding the missing child.
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