The four suspects involved and Inset: Blessing and baby |
Seventeen-year-old
Blessing Godspower, on Wednesday
narrated how her mother sold her (Godspower) eight-month-old baby.
The mother,
Onyinyechi Nwabueze, 38, was paraded by the police at the ‘A’ Division of the Plateau State Police
Command.
Policemen
from the division, led by the Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Victor Dimkpa, a
Chief Superintendent of Police, had rescued the baby, Chiamaka, in Awka, the
Anambra State capital. The story
was exclusively reported on Friday.
Blessing,
who was staying with her mother at Rukuba Road area of Jos North, was allegedly
put in the family way by her boyfriend.
After
Chiamaka was delivered, Godspower’s mother, who was not comfortable with the
development, allegedly decided to get rid of the baby.
According to
Blessing, on July 19, her mother sent her on a phony errand in order to effect
the “diabolical” act.
She said,
“My mother sent me on an errand, but when I came back I asked for my baby and
my mother asked, ‘which baby?’ She feigned ignorance and at that point I
started crying and reported the incident to the Police.”
Police
Commissioner, Mr. Chris Olakpe said, “After the mother sent her daughter away,
she (Nwabueze) stopped a tricycle and took the baby to the first receiver, one
Eucharia Anyaegbu. Anyaegbu transferred the baby to the second receiver, Rita
Maduako, who finally sold the baby to 53-year-old unmarried woman, Grace
Nnadozie.”
Nnadozie,
however, told our correspondent that after she applied to an orphanage home for
a child without any result for the past two years, she sought Anyaegbu’s help.
She
said she gave N500,000 to Anyaegbu for
the baby. Anyaegbu gave N350, 000 to Maduako.
Maduako was to give N200,000 to the baby’s grandmother.
But Nwabueze
denied that she sold the baby. She said
her daughter was very wayward, so she decided to give the baby out to somebody
else who would take proper care of her.
She said,
“How can I sell my granddaughter. My daughter is not capable of taking care of
the baby and I decided to give her to somebody who will take proper care of
her.”
Nwabueze
explained that she lost her husband in 2007 and since then, she and the six
children she had with him, had been finding things difficult.
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