How Teen Mum, Okike Ezinne, Sold Her Baby For N300,000 In Enugu State

ThisDay gathers that Ezinne told police that her bosom friend tricked her into selling off her baby.

According to Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Enugu State, SP Ebere Amaraizu, Ezinne blamed her bosom friend Promise Godwin, a 20-year old single mother for tricking her into selling off her baby after she had the little girl out of wedlock.

He further explained that Ezinne claimed that when things were no longer going on well for her at home, Promise, also from Isu MbanezeOhazara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State approached her to come to Enugu with the child with a promise that somebody was going to take care of Ezinne and her child.

“According to Ezinne, she later joined the friend in Enugu where she secured an accommodation at Coal Camp axis but later found out that the friend had abandoned her husband and had become a commercial sex worker at Four corners junction, Enugu to make ends meet.

“In the month of March 2016, Promise Godwin perfected the purchase deal of little Chisom at the price of N300,000 through a Gloria Okafor from Uturu. She was said to be married to now late Sunday Okafor of Umudi Lokpanta in Abia State whose major occupation was to find and sell babies to prospective buyers within Uturu, lokpanta and its environs,” the PPRO said.

In addition, Amaraizu said that police gathered that following the establishment of the sales contract between Ezinne and Promise with Gloria Okafor, little Chisom Raphael was taken to Limca bus stop at Okigwe, Imo State, along Enugu-Port-Harcourt Expressway, Okigwe where Chisom was sold to Gloria for N300, 000 and money given to the mother in cash.

He said: “On coming back to Enugu, the suspects shared the money as follows:N200, 000 to Ezinne, the mother of the sold child, N50, 000 to Promise, while the remaining N50, 000 went to the motorcyclist working with Godwin Promise at the Four Corner Brothel where she is staying.”

When Gloria Okafor was arrested, she revealed how she bought the child from Ezinne and Promise but maintained that the child was later handed over to the buyer that same day and the buyer is now at large and further revealed that Godwin Promise, who is already 8-month pregnant and also with a child of one year and a month, has also perfected arrangement to sell off the baby whom she named Chiadikaobi to a prospective buyer before they were nabbed by the operatives of the Central Police station of the Nigeria Police, Enugu State command.

“Suspects are now helping police in their investigations and begging for forgiveness but however blamed the situation to devil’s work.

“Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu, has advised youths to know the type of friend they keep in order to become meaningful to themselves and the entire society,” the PPRO noted.

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