How Children Are Kidnapped and Sold For N500,000 In Delta State

Festus Nwaomucha, who is a resident of Ndemili community in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, tells the story of how a kidnapping gang sold his five-year-old niece for N500,000. He narrated that a number of children had been going missing in the community over time but on September 24, his niece, Glory Oyibo, was snatched right from the family compound in Ndemili, causing the family to go into panic. But hope shone on the family as they heard that on the 13th of November, when news filtered in that two kidnappers had been caught in Issele-Uku, a suburb of Asaba, with two children in their vehicles.

Saturday Punch reported that the two suspects Emmanuel Udagwu, a resident of Agbor Alidinma and Celestina Enebeli from Ulogwe Isumpe after being arrested confessed to have been involved in some previous kidnapping of children from Ndemili and surrounding communities.

“When they kidnapped children, they transported their victims to Asaba, where a 70-year-old-woman received the victims for onward ferry to other places for sale, The old woman confessed that she had sold my little niece along with another victim, a boy, for N500,000 to some people in the East. She sold them through another man in Asaba. The man outsmarted us during arrest, abandoning his taxi color car. I want to thank all those who have been standing by my family through prayers, which have paid off. We are still praying for Glory to be alive in captivity so that she can be found in good health and reunited with her parents and other siblings, who have not stopped crying day and night since she was kidnapped,” he said.

The police are reported to be still in the process of finding the little girl and all other children who were kidnapped from the gang.