Tension has pervaded
the atmosphere of Imo State Police Command over the arrest of a corporal
identified as Uche Odoemena, popularly known as Prince, who is currently
serving at Okigwe area command, for his alleged involvement in child
trafficking.
Police sources told
Punch that the police corporal who is currently held at the federal prisons in
Owerri after the commissioner of police in the state, Taiwo Lakanu, ordered
that he be tried, was arrested in Okigwe and bundled to Owerri on Wednesday.
Sources say
Odoemena, who is married to a police Sergeant, identified as Cynthia Odoemena,
attached to the command headquarters in Owerri, was an alleged habitual human
trafficker.
The say the
Policeman had snatched on a gunpoint, a newly born baby from a mother whose,
identify had yet to be ascertained as of the time of reporting, in Anambra
State and sold him subsequently for N600,000 (six hundred thousand Naira).
The sources
disclosed that it was the painstaking investigation carried out by the police
officers in Anambra upon the nursing mother’s complaint that led to his arrest.
According to
sources, the CP who was enraged at the development, ordered that he be
dismissed immediately and be prosecuted accordingly.
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