Police Parade 10 Child Traffickers

The Police in Abia
State have paraded 10 suspected child traffickers. The exercise is part of its resolve to curb criminal activities and  sensitise the public to be security-conscious.
Speaking with reporters in Umuahia on behalf of Police Commissioner Ibrahim Adamu, the command’s spokesman, Geoffrey Ogbonna, said his men were up to the task as the indigenes were responding to their call for  collective security networking.
He said that Chief Thomas Ekwenye of Alaukwu community in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government informed the police that youths apprehended three suspected child traffickers, Chidinma Ukpai, Felicia Ahukanna and Peace Ogbonna, from the same village, who were in possession of three babies.
He said: “The twins among them were said to have been stolen at gunpoint from their parents by Lucky Ohakwe and another suspect on the run and taken to Ahukanna. We searched for the twins’ mother and after identifying the babies, she took them home.”
Ogbonna said his men on a routine patrol arrested three suspects–Blessing Oluchukwu, Promise Onyezu and Nkechi Kalu–all women, while negotiating the sale of an unborn child of Onyezu, who is six months pregnant noting that the initiator of the business, Kalu, collected N50,000 from Oluchukwu, which was paid to Onyezu as part payment.
Ogbonna added: “They were caught in the process and we are investigating the matter.”
The police spokesman said Amarachi Uchendu of Umuode village reported to the command the suspicious movement of three persons.
Ogbonna said the command was trailing the suspects, while contacts had been made with the families of the stolen babies in Adamawa State to return them.

Managing Director, Peace Mass Transit (PMT) Company, Mr Samuel Onyishi (middle), speaking during training for PMT drivers in Enugu last Tuesday. With him are Training Officer, FRSC Enugu Sector, Mrs Josephine Oranegbo (right) and representative of FRSC Sector Commander, Enugu State, Mrs Rose Anosike.