Nneka Donaltus, a 27 year old Single mother has confessed to use part of the proceed from the Sale of her day old daughter to buy a Phone, wrapper and Slippers for herself
Punch reports that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Imo State Police Command has arrested Nneka after her mother raised alarm at Ezinachi in the Okigwe LGA of Imo State.
The mother of the baby, who spoke to Southern City News at the command headquarters in Owerri on Thursday, confessed that she used part of the proceeds to buy a phone, wrapper and slippers for herself.
Hear her “I sold my baby girl for N600,000 and used N15,000 from the money to buy a phone, wrapper and slippers and transported myself back home.
“I asked Nneoma Onwusereaka and her husband, who had the balance to use it to start a business for me. I have five children already and I am separated from my former husband”
She disclosed that the she decided to sell the baby because she was not ready to keep the baby girl having given birth to five children already.
A level 12 civil servant at the state Ministry of Women Affairs, Ujunwa Udechukwu, 40; and Nneoma Onwusereaka, 37; who allegedly conspired with the single mother to sell the baby to a couple have also been arrested
The state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Ladodo, explained that his command was fighting hard to ensure that child trafficking, which he considered as a serious crime against humanity, was curbed in the state.
Punch
