Ifeanyi Anyanwu and Amarachi Ugorji are in the net of the anti-kidnapping unit of the Imo State police after they were nabbed for kidnapping a child.
The State’s Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem, revealed that the kidnappers, Ifeanyi and Amarachi, had at first demanded ransom from the child’s parents who live in Umuozu- Uguiri in the Isiala Mbano LGA, Imo State. But when the parents of two year old Ikechukwu Nwachukwu could not provide the ransom, they opted to sell him off for N500,000 to a certain Ifeanyinwa Duru. Investigation further showed that the buyer also sold the child for an increased fee of N750,000 to a Mrs. Chidinma Emmanuel.
SP Andrew Enwerem further said:
“The two buyers were arrested in Aba, Abia State, following painstaking investigation, while the child was rescued unhurt and has since been reunited with the legitimate parents by the command. The suspects have confessed to the crime and investigation has been concluded. The syndicate will soon be charged to court. The Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, has instructed all heads of the tactical units of the command to go all out against those who trade in human beings, especially children, who have done nothing wrong except that they were born into a society that has lost its values.”
The two kidnap suspects were said to be a couple, with Amarachi Ugorji pregnant with another child for Ifeanyi, after they confessed that they once had a child that they sold to a man in Port Harcourt on credit of N200,000.
The issue of kidnapping is becoming the order of the day and as the year winds to an end, parents should be wise enough to take precautions in securing their children and also themselves.
Source: PUNCH
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