A
23-year-old pregnant woman, Adaeze Mba, caused a stir at the Lagos State Police
headquarters on Thursday after she confessed that she had sold her unborn baby
for N200,000, in advance:
“I
am seven months pregnant and as I speak to you, my husband has already sold our
unborn baby for N200,000. I was against it but he convinced me to agree to it,
saying he had already collected the money.”
She
and her husband also sold their neighbour's son for N400,000 and escaped...
The
woman, who was arrested for conniving with her husband to sell their
neighbour’s four-year-old son for N400,000, said it was poverty that pushed
them to crime. She confessed that she and her husband had sold two other children
for N700,000.
She
said, “In March 2013, my neighbour’s son, Stanley Ezeaka, was following me
about in the compound at Jakande Estate and it was at that time that my husband
received a phone call from his partner that she needed a child for sale. My husband
then suggested that we took Stanley even though he was a bit old.
“We
travelled to Imo State the following morning and sold him for N400,000 after
which we relocated to Calabar.”
When
asked about the other children she and her husband, Chibueze, had sold, she
said, “The male child was sold at N400,000 while the female child, who was two
months old but is now over a year old, was sold at N300,000.”
The
husband, Chibueze, on his part, said he went into the business last year. He
said he had sold ‘only’ three children to his business partner, Madam Benedicta
Ogbonna.
He
said, “One of the children was born by a mentally challenged woman; so I have
committed no crime by selling the child to people who would take care of her.”
Ogbonna,
who bought the three children from Chibueze and his wife at different times,
said she sold children to barren couples.
She
said, “I am doing this business for humanitarian reasons and not for monetary
gain. I am 35 years old and I have four children. I can never sell my own
children and in fact my husband does not know I am into this kind of business.
“Chibueze
brought Stanley to me and told me that his mother was a prostitute so he sold
him to me at N400,000. I then sold Stanley to Mrs. Patricia Anibogwu for
N600,000. So far, I have sold only three children. I buy boys at N400,000 and
girls at N300,000.
“I
use the money to take care of people and also invest it in my business. I sell
shoes for a living at Anambra Wholesale Market.”
Anibogwu,
who was the final buyer, said she thought Ogbonna was an employee of an
orphanage. She said she bought Stanley because she was lonely having lost her
husband.
She
said amid tears that, “I was married for 28 years without a child. After my
husband died, I decided to adopt the child because I was lonely. Someone
introduced me to Ogbonna. Ogbonna told me she worked at an orphanage and would
sell Stanley to me for N600,000.
“I
used my savings to pay for him and she brought Stanley to a roadside. I took
Stanley home and started taking care of him like my own child. I changed his
name to Uchenna. Ogbonna promised me that she would give me legal documents
later but, unfortunately, I was arrested.”
Parents
have been advised to be vigilant and childless women too are urged to go
through the formal process of adoption rather than buying children from just
anyone.
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