Nigeria’s Rivers State Police Command has arrested one Noble Nzuchi, 17 years old for allegedly impregnating 10 ladies.
Impregnating 10 ladies at the age of 17 years is not a dire consequence. His arrest comes after a tipoff to the authorities. According to the informant, one other suspect was running a baby factory. Chigozie Ogbonna is his name. A 29- year-old man.
Two other suspects are ladies known to be accomplices who were also arrested following the police tipoff.
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In a statement released by the police, the suspects operated in the Obio/Akpor and Ikwerre local government areas of the state before their arrest.
On Saturday, January 7, 2023, around 4.45 pm, while acting on credible intelligence available to the Rivers State Police Command, C4I Intelligence Unit operatives raided two houses at Igwuruta and Omagwa communities respectively, where victims of child trafficking were being kept.
Of the victims rescued in the operation are 10, most of them pregnant. Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police said in the statement.
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All the victims confessed that they were lured to the illicit sales of children because of the need to meet some financial challenges. A Honda Pilot Jeep, white, was recovered from the syndicate leader.” part of the statement reads.
She disclosed that investigations found that when a victim delivered her baby, the syndicate leader kept the child and paid her a sum of N500,000. Also, some of the babies previously delivered in the houses had been sold.
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