Nine teenage girls at various stages of pregnancy were also rescued during the raid.
Speaking with newsmen in Umuahia, the Abia State Commissioner of Police, Usman Tilli Abubakar, said his men followed a tip off and raided a home operated by one Ebere Nkemdirim on Adaelu Road in Osisioma area of the state where Adaeze, his wife, was arrested, while Nkemdirim is now at large.
Abubakar gave the names of other suspects arrested with Adaeze as Eberechi Achi, Onyedikachi Okere and Gift Ohuonu, all females who Adaeze claimed were her housemaids and had been delivered of their babies and sold by Nkemdirim.
The Abia CP explained that during the search and attempt to recover a baby already sold by Adaeze and her husband, “my team raided one Daughter of Zion rehabilitation/motherless babies and care centre at Amaoji Ukwu in Obingwa council area and rescued nine teenage pregnant girls.”
He gave the names of the rescued pregnant girls as Blessing Amadi, Amarachi Onwukwe, Amarachi Udoka, Chidinma Onukafor, Favour Dike, Precious Emmanuel, Eziuche Michael, Chinasa Chukwuka, Chidera Ogbonna and Chinyere Agbakuru, adding that three babies kept there for sale were also rescued.
Abubakar said his command had intensified efforts to recover all the babies already sold by Adaeze, her husband and Ngozi Ukonu the owner of Daughter of Zion Motherless Babies’ Home.
The CP said Adaeze was also involved in another case of buying and selling a six-month-old baby born by an imbecile, Adaku Okpechi, and bought by Adaeze for N350,000. The suspects who sold the baby to her were said to have confessed to the crime.
Abubakar gave the names of the suspects as Ugochukwu Nwosu (21), Emmanuel Anyanwu (21), Nwamaka Okorie (31), Florence Ukandu (31) and Rhoda Nwokocha (21), adding that they will be charged to court very soon.
Speaking with The Nation, one of the suspects, Gift Ohuonu, described herself as a maid to Adaeze, saying she had been living with her and had a baby some time ago. “But Aunty Adaeze took my baby away and I have not seen the baby since then,” Ohuonu said.
Adaeze, however, denied the allegation that she was involved in child trafficking, saying she had been in the habit of assisting helpless girls for years. However, one of the teenage girls, Eberechi Achi, said that Adaeze sold their babies for N400,000 each.
In her own interaction with The Nation Ukaonu said she was running a motherless babies’ home duly registered with the state’s Ministry of Women Affairs. But the police said she had been using the place for a purpose that was different from what it was registered for.
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