Police have burst a purported baby-making home in Imo State and rescued nine pregnant girls.
Briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt, Cyril Okoro, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Administration who addressed the press on behalf of Mr. Ahmed Zaki, the state Commissioner of Police, said the Inspector-General of Police monitoring team led by ACP Bennet Igwe discovered the girls while they were searching the home of one Mrs. Ngozi Egeonu in Imo.
Okoro further said: “Operatives of the IGP team unit acting on credible intelligence arrested Nkechi Uzoemene, Roseline Okey and Nwolu Rita who conspired among themselves and sold a two-month old boy belonging to Nwolu Rita at N300,000 without the consent of the husband.
“The child was sold to Ngozi Egeonu at Owerri, Imo State. On execution of search in the house and premises of Egeonu, the operatives recovered nine pregnant girls whose pregnancies have been mortgaged.
However, the suspects told our reporter that they were innocent of the crime, adding the baby was not sold rather the boy was sent to the home in Owerri for attention.
In another development, the team also arrested four men suspected to be the killers of Mr. Heaven Ihuigwe, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogbogoro community, Obio/Akpor local government area of the state murdered in September 2017.
Okoro stated that the killers of Ihuigwe were arrested through its investigations, adding that the suspects have confessed to the crime.
“Following a tip-off, men of the IGP monitoring unit arrested one Ifeanyi Okoro, 25, residing at Omagwa community in Ikwerre local government area. On interrogation, the suspect confessed to have been involved in the murder of Late Hon. Heaven Ihuigwe. He mentioned Ajade Niyi, Austin Isotec, Chief Joseph Iwuoku and another who is at large as being involved,” he said.
However, Niyi Ajade, one of the suspects in the murder of Ihuigwe, stated that they killed the victim so they could have access to sell off a portion of land linked to him as caretaker.
Ajade said that the chief who wanted to sell the land said the area would be sold for N20 million, admitting that he was given N30,000 to be involved in the killing.
