A woman who has been parading herself as a nurse and running a baby factory in connivance with a fake lwayer, has been arrested in Delta State.n
The suspects, Joseph Ezurum and Uju Okonkwo (Niger Delta Voice) Criminal Mind Evangelist arrested for kidnapping, selling 4-yr-old girl in Imo. In Enugu Police discover factory where babies are sold for N300,000 above Baby Factory Man arrested for running illegal home where babies are sold in Enugu Criminal Mind Woman sells sister's unborn child for N100k Child Trafficking Husband, wife nabbed for running baby factory in Calabar. Poverty 20-yr-old caught for selling baby for 20k, In Delta 23 baby markets discovered discovered by Police Mother From Hell Pregnant woman sells her unborn baby for N100k in Anambra It was the end of the road for a 43-year-old woman, Uju Okonkwo, who has been parading herself as a nurse for many years, after she connived with one Joseph Ezurum, himself a fake lawyer, to sell a three-month-old baby to a Lagos-based businessman, for N500,000, as they have been arrested by the Delta State Police Command.
it was also reported that Ezurum who claimed to have graduated from the Nnamdi Azikwe University (NAU ), Anambra State, in 2011 with registration number 39017, was the one procured fake papers for Okonkwo, provided the hideouts where she took her victims to as well as acting as her solicitor. According to the police, three young baby factory victims, Chinyere Ude, 19, Happiness Igwe, 20 and Esther Frank, 17, who were in different stages of pregnancy, were rescued from one of the hideouts. The girls disclosed to the police that they were brought to the hideout by Okonkwo who claimed to have worked at Chinonso Hospital, Nkpor in Anambra, for the purpose of selling their babies after delivery. Acting on a tip off, operatives of the Special Anti- Kidnapping Squad (SAKS), of the State Command, raided the hideout on Okpanam Road in Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state, and effected the arrest of the suspects as well as rescuing the girls. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Zanna Ibrahim, while parading the suspects alongside the pregnant girls, said they were arrested after an intensive surveillance by his men.
In her confession, Okonkwo said she and Ezurum had been running the baby factory for over one year now and that she recently sold a baby for N500,000 to a Lagos-based businessman.
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Posted: at 8-08-2016 04:54 PM (8 years ago) | Hero