The police in Enugwu State have arrested one Ekene Duru, a suspected child trafficker and his accomplice for stealing two children in Abia state and trafficking them to Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The stolen children were taken to a certain woman who sells them off to couples who are yet to welcome their own children.
The suspected trafficker told the police that he goes about stealing children as little as two years old
According to him: “I steal children and deliver to people. I steal children of about 2 years old and sell them off to a woman who stays in Port Harcourt.
” I buy them biscuit or egg. After I steal them I will enter a motorcycle or tricycle. Nobody stops to ask me who owns the child and the child too will not cry when I carry them” .
Ekene said he has only stolen two children so far and has sold them both. He said he sold one of the stolen child for N200, 000 and another for N100, 000.
His accomplice, Chinonso Sylvanus, alleged that Ekene contracted him to steal children.
” I stole the boy and carried him to my Oga who gave me N50, 000. I used the money to run to Owerri. It was my Oga that told me to run to Owerri or Port Harcourt”
