The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested a
female principal for allegedly buying two female babies from suspected child
trafficking syndicate operating in the area.
Findings revealed that security operatives in
the area smashed the child trafficking syndicate that specialised in buying and
selling of little babies in the state.
The principal (name withheld) was apprehended
in Uburu community in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of the state.
Addressing newsmen on the matter, the Desk
Officer of the National Agency for Prohibition and Trafficking in Persons and
other Related Offences in Ebonyi State, Mrs. Florence Onwa, said the suspects
were arrested following a tip-off that the woman was in possession of two
babies suspected to have been stolen.
Onwa said, “After weeks of thorough
investigations, a crack team of the agency in collaboration with operative of
the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, stormed Uburu where they arrested the school
principal and recovered the stolen babies.
“We discovered that the suspect did not give
birth to any of the babies, and where she hid the babies was not even in her
late husband’s house, but rather in her sister’s house, where we arrested her
and recovered the babies.”
Reacting to the development, the Director,
Child Trafficking Department of the State Ministry of Women Development, Mr.
Igwe Godwin, disclosed that the ministry had recovered over 10 children since
September 2016.
“There is need for young girls to look for
source of living and forget about going after men for source of living,” she
cautioned.
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