The owner of
a popular restaurant, City Garden Resort, at Banana Junction, Amaifeke
identified as Chimezie Agubata has been arrested by the Imo State Police
Command in
Owerri for allegedly abducting three children and selling two of
them.
Agubata, who
hails from Nkwerre Local Government Area of Imo State and reportedly manages an
orphanage home, God’s Favour Orphanage Home, in Okporo, was paraded by the
police on Friday.
A widow,
Mrs. Esther Agwu, narrated to newsmen at the police station how Agubata allegedly
abducted her three children and sold off two of them.
The widow,
who hails from Amasiri Afikpo Community in Ebonyi State, said she had been
working for Agubata when the suspects allegedly abducted the children under the
guise that he was taking care of them.
The widow
said it was by God’s grace that her eldest child escaped from Agubata’s home
when he noticed that his siblings had been given to two different persons, who
took them away in different vehicles.
Agwu
explained that it was one Ifeanyi, who introduced her to Agubata, upon the
demise of her husband.
The widow
said the suspect promised to offer her a job without knowing that he was in the
business of abducting and selling children.
Agwu said,
“He told me that his wife was not happy that my children were playing around on
his business premises and that he would want my three children to stay with his
mother in her house. He presented one woman who claimed to be his mother and
from the shop she left with my children.
“That same
day, he told me that there is one of his uncles in Lagos whose wife has
difficulty in child bearing and that the man would want to see me for marriage.
He then gave me N5,500 to go to Lagos and told me that he would come and pick
me at the park.
“The
following day, I left for Lagos to see the proposed husband. But when I got to
Lagos, a woman called and picked me and kept me in a place that looked like a
brothel with prostitutes.
“I asked her
about the man. She said I will go to Ghana or stay in Lagos and do what others
were doing at the brothel. I had to run out of the place and went to the
street, where I started begging for assistance. Some people assisted me with
transport fare with which I immediately travelled back to Orlu to look for my
children,” Agwu recounted.
The state
Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, said the command was determined to
eradicate child trafficking in the state.
Ezike said
operatives of the command had been charged to go after people who derive joy in
trading in human beings, especially little children, adding that anybody who
got involved in running illegal orphanages would be brought to justice.
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