Tina Amanda
A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt has remanded Koko Crusco, the Executive Director of a Motherless Baby Home in Port Harcourt known as Koko Home Foundation, and one of her staff, Comfort Ekon in prison custody over alleged involvement in trafficking a set of twin babies.
The court also remanded one Favour Uche for alleged conspiracy with one Dennis Chimezie who is already remanded in prison over the trafficking of the set of twin babies reported to have died and their remains deposited at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH mortuary.
The Presiding Magistrate, Chief Magistrate Rita Oguguo ordered that the Chief Medical Director of UPTH, through the Police Officer in charge of the case should on the next adjourned date furnish the court with information on the whereabouts and relevant documents of the twins especially as it concerns the depositing of their remains.
The order was given by the Chief Magistrate following the testimonies of Koko Crusco, owner of the Home Foundation, that the twin babies were handed over to her with ill by the police on 7 June 2021 and were confirmed dead at the police clinic on 9 June 2020.
Koko Crusco further told the court that the bodies of the twins were deposited at the UPTH mortuary by the police officer who handed over the children to the foundation.
Chief Magistrate Rita Oguguo after listening to the testimonies of the suspects on their involvement in the child trafficking remanded them in prison and adjourning to 19 July 2021 for information and possible bail application of the suspects.
