Police, Others Nabbed For Stealing Five-Month Old Baby

A police corporal (name withheld) and four others have been arrested by men of the Rivers State Police Command for allegedly stealing a five months old baby girl, at a business centre in Port Harcourt.

The other suspects involved in the incident are, a middle aged man whose name was simply given as Tony from Abia State, another middle aged man from Ahoada in Rivers State and a woman trader at Mile III Market.

The Tide investigations revealed that the principal suspect, Mr Tony who was a family friend to the parents of the baby and as well visits the business centre owned by the baby’s mother at Ojoto Street in Mile II Diobu, Port Harcourt, had promised a Rivers women who is married to a foreigner that as a staff of the Port Harcourt Children Home, Borokiri he could help her get a baby girl.

According to our investigations, Tony  forged a form of the Motherless Babies’ Home which the police corporal allegedly appended his signature as a surety for the deal.

The suspects were said to have also secretly taken the photograph of the five month old baby to the woman who later gave them the sum of N250,000.

Luck however, ran out of them when the mother who was busy typing a church document brought by Tony as a friend discovered that her baby was nowhere to be found.

The woman immediately alerted the police who mounted a surveillance in search of the suspects.

Tony who was later arrested in his house at Rumuolumeni took the policemen to the house of the woman who requested for the baby where other suspects were arrested including the woman trader from Mile III Market who allegedly facilitated the conveying of the baby to her supposed destination.

As at the time of filing the report, the suspects were still being detained at the police station.

However, the Rivers State Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) DSP Ben Ugwuegbulom could not immediately be reached for comment.

Rivers State Governor, Rt Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and Chairman of Governors Forum (right) chatting with Edo State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan (left) and other governors, during a meeting of the forum, held in Abuja, at the weekend.