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.
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.
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