A man in Abia State has sold off his two-week-old baby girl without the knowledge of his wife.
The police have, however, rescued the baby girl.
It was gathered that the child’s rescue was among the latest landmark accomplishments of a new security outfit set up by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade, to check crime in the state.
Oyebade told newsmen in Umuahia, the state capital that the newly set up Tactical Response Squad and other special police units in the state also arrested nine suspected armed robbers and cultists, two vandals and a child trafficker, from whom they recovered five vehicles and rescued an abducted woman as well as the baby girl said to have been sold off by her father.
He said, “On April 24, 2017 at about 1600hrs, detectives attached to Uratta Division while on surveillance duty at Uratta Junction, Aba, arrested a woman named Gift Kpaa from Gogana, Rivers State, with a two-week-old baby girl. On interrogation, she confessed that she was not the biological mother of the baby; that the girl was given to her by her biological father, identified as Ntue.
“Meanwhile, it is deductible that the suspect connived with the said Ntue, now at large, and stole the baby from her biological mother. The baby has been taken to a motherless baby’s home for care and custody while efforts are put in place to re-unite the baby with her biological mother and arrest the accomplice.”
Seeking increased public support, Oyebade said, “I wish to acknowledge the efforts of all those who promptly gave us information that helped to realize certain feats and urged them to do more, especially now that the state governor has earmarked a mouth-watering sum for anyone that would volunteer information towards tracking down armed robbery and kidnapping suspects in the state.”
He revealed how the quick intervention by his men had saved a woman, whose husband, Bernard Madu, had alerted the police at World Bank Division, Umuahia, that his wife, Chioma Madu, was abducted by gunmen in her Toyota Camry car marked BDC 423 CU.
A manhunt by the police was said to have forced the suspected kidnappers to abandon the vehicle and release the woman.
Oyebade also told reporters how policemen attached to 55PMF in Aba recovered a stolen ash-coloured Nissan Pathfinder SUV on April 21 at about 11:40pm while on routine patrol of the Highway at Umuimo Junction, Ekeakpara in Osisioma area of Aba.
He said that the policemen had flagged down the car marked CU 195 FST (Lagos), but the driver, instead of producing the vehicle documents as demanded, zoomed off and he was chased by the PMF patrol team.
“After beating the military check point at Arungwa junction, the driver abandoned the vehicle and fled into the bush. The vehicle was recovered and transferred to Osisioma Division for investigation,” the police boss said.
Acting on a report by one Emmanuel Nwachukwu of 34, Nkume Street by Ariaria in Aba, who was robbed at gunpoint while returning from Church at 23, Ndukauba by John Crescent Aba, policemen arrested one of the suspects identified as Onyekachi Nwobodo.
They allegedly snatched the victim’s Samsung GSM phone valued at N60, 000 and hit him with the butt of a pistol, which injured him injury on his left eye.
“On the same day, at about 8am, following a report made by one Prince James Esonwune of 2, Nkoro Street, Aba, that he was dispossessed of the sum of N450, 000, his international passport, Zenith Bank ATM card and National Identity Card, police operatives attached to Aba Area Command swung into action and arrested one Emenike Obinna, while others escaped. The suspects have confessed to the crime and are assisting the investigation,” Oyebade said.
“Patrol team attached to Central Police Station, Aba, while on patrol along Ikot Ekpene Road, by Macro Hotels Aba, accosted one Kelvin Chima of Ukaegbu area in Aba, who reported to them that some hoodlums robbed him of his valuables, including an Android GSM phone. They immediately went after the hoodlums, during which the duo of Onyebuchi Ogolo and Paul Bisom of no fixed address were arrested.
The stolen Android Phone and other valuables belonging to the complainant, were recovered from them. The suspects have, however, confessed to the crime and membership of a notorious cult group on revenge mission to rob and kill against the ‘Aro Baggas’ cult group, whose leader once launched an attack against them sometime in January 2017.”
