Delta State
Police Command Police has rescued 12 kidnapped children and arrested some child
traffickers.
One Abigail
Nwakama also known as 'Madam Cash' and a
popular radio preacher and founder of Gospel Fire Army Ministry,
Nkwele-Ogidi, Anambra State, Chinedu Strongson, were arrested alongside 8
others for operating a kidnapping ring.
Police paraded
Mrs. Nwakama and the cleric before journalists on Saturday, September 10th at
the police headquarters, Asaba, Delta State, along with 43 other criminals
arrested for kidnapping, robbery, murder, cultism and car theft.
Revealing
details of her notorious kidnapping syndicate that abducted children before
selling them into slavery, police sources said that she stole a one-year-old
girl, identified as Fatimah Yahaya, from her mother after paying her mother
N3,000. It was learned that Mrs. Nwakama then sold the young girl to the
48-year-old pastor for N400,000.
According to
the state police commissioner, Zana Ibrahim, 12 stolen children were rescued
from the pastor, confirming that he allegedly paid N400,000 for each child sold
to him.
The pastor
denied any involvement in child trafficking, claiming that he only help in
paying school fees for children. Mother of the kidnapped girl, Aisha Yahaya
reported how two ladies came to her house in Asaba posing as police detectives
sent by her husband now serving at Ogwashi Uku prisons.
She followed
them to a junction where they met Mrs Nwakama who gave her N3,500 to alleviate
her poverty and asked her to buy clothes for her daughter. In the process, the
said child was allegedly stolen by the syndicate, prompting her to raise the
alarm which led to the arrest of the two ladies.
Based on the
report, the commissioner said detectives swung into action and arrested one
Onyinye Nwakama, daughter of Madam Cash, at a drinking bar in Asaba. Also
arrested was Ifeoma Anyadike, (32) at Okpanam before they led detectives to
Ogidi where the pastor was arrested.
Others
arrested from different locations are David Ikesinachi; Ebere Edwin, Adaeze
Enyi and Chike Agwunenu. Two of the rescued children, the commissioner of
police said, had been handed over to their parents while the remaining were
kept at an orphanage in Asaba pending identification by their families.
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