Imo state Police Monday paraded 49 suspects ranging from kidnapping, robbery and child theft .Among the suspects paraded included five suspects for allegedly stealing and selling of two children who are male and female for N1 Million, belonging to one Abigail Ukah who the suspects had allegedly waylaid and attacked with matchets on her way back to her home ,and who they had subsequently dumped in the bush as dead body.
Imo state Commissioner of Police Mr. Chris Ezike who paraded the suspects said that on the 29th of August 2017, Oluchi Chibiko a cousin of the Victim Abigail Ukah from Uzoagba in Ikereduru council of the state had told the the victim that she had found her a husband one Obinna Eze. Ezike further revealed that Oluchi Chibiko had taken victim and her two children namely Francis Nwachukwu, five years and Chinazaekpere Nwachukwu, two years to visit the supposed husband Obinna Eze at Afara in Mbaitoli Council .
He disclosed that unknown to the victim that Oluchi Chibiko and Obinna Eze had already concluded plans attack her and take away her children. ”
Obinna and Oluchi had hired one Vitalis Lumanze and Chinatu alias Salasco whom they had already paid the sum of N160,000 to kill her on their way back to Uzoagba Ikeduru later that evening. At about 7PM same day along Amankuta Mbieri along a lonely bush path, the two hired men emerged from the bush with matchets and torch light and attacked the victim gave her several matchet cuts all over her body, dragged her and dumped her inside the bush believing that she was dead while Obinna and Oluchi took away children back to the house of Obinna at Afara where the passed the night.”
He said, ” in the morning of 30th August, Oluchi and Obinna took the two children to Enugu state and sold the two children one Mrs. Nkiru Nwanedu, 45 years old from Egwedi In Njaba council of Imo state for N1M, but paid them only N700,000 and promised to pay the balance on a later date.
Mrs. Nwanedu who resold the children to another suspect, Mrs. Jacinta Amadi, 45, from Egede in Udi council area of Enugu state, took custody of the two children from the August 30, 2017 till October 27, 2017 when they were arrested from their various hideouts.”
The state Police commissioner further disclosed that Obinna Eze and Nkiru Nwanedu who had earlier been convicted and jailed came to know each other at Okigwe Prisons.
Fielding questions from Journalists Oluchi Chibiko said that her cousin( Victim) had told her that she could take care of the two children and that she needed find somebody who could help and had taken her to Obinna Eze who said he was going to marry her.
She further claimed that it was her who has taken the Police to Enugu to arrest the buyer of the Children when she was arrested.
However, Obinna Eze who said that Oluchi never told him that Abigail( victim) was her relation and that at no time that he was informed that her that he intended to marry her and that all the plot was carried out by Oluchi and that he only linked her to the buyer.
