Soldiers attached to 144 Battalion under 14Brigade Army Headquarters, Ohafia Abia State in conjunction with the youths of Okpu Umuobo in Osisioma LGA of Abia State have arrested one Mr. Samson J. Enweriji for allegedly being in possession of a day old baby.
Enwereji, aged 50 years is said to be an indigene of Isialangwa South LGA of the State.
Our reporter gathered that the suspect was arrested through a tip off while attempting to evade with the child.
Information within the army battalion has it that when intelligence has it that Enwereji was in the custody of an unknown baby around Okpu Umuobo, the army checkpoint in the area was activated and thereafter began stop and search operation in the area.
The soldiers on suspicion flagged down Enwereji in a black Toyota Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) with two women.
It was learnt that during a thorough search the two women who had alighted from the car escaped, but a day old baby hidden in women’s hand bag and zipped with the sum of Eighty Four Thousand Naira (#84,000.00) only was discovered in the vehicle.
Also found on the suspect were total sum of Thirteen Thousand Naira and placenta of a baby wrapped in a polythene bag. An indication that the baby was just delivered.
While some youths in the area had opened that the women and their male collaborator might have killed the mother of the child and tried to escaping with the child.
They urged the army authorities to ensure that they got to the root of the matter with the aim of ascertaining whether the mother of the baby is still alive and to return the child to her is she is not a collaborator of the crime.
They added that the mother of the baby shall be made to face the consequences of her actions if she is indicted in the illicit trade.
But a military source in 14Brigade said that investigation was on, adding that efforts to reunite the child with the mother has yielded no fruit.
The source who spoke anonymously went further to disclose that personnel of 144 Battalion also arrested one Miss Franca Bassey, aged 22 years.
Miss Bassey is said to be a student nurse from Akpabuyo LGA of Cross River State was said to have been arrested at Umuojima, Osisioma LGA of the state.
She was alleged to have been for being in possession of a new born baby suspected to be a week old.
Miss Bassey it was learnt during interrogation confessed of being sent by the Medical Director of a private hospital at Umuode village in the same Osisioma to bring a patient coming to the hospital.
According to the statement of the student nurse, on getting to the place she was directed to go, she met a woman who asked if she was the person to receive the patient.
The woman was said to have handed over to her a baby to take back to the doctor and left.
Luck was said to have ran out of her when the soldiers swooped on her.
“When the troops arrived, she claimed she wanted to report to any security agency before the arrival of own soldiers.
“The nurse and Enwereji are presently in our custody for preliminary investigation before being handover to the Police for further investigation and possible prosecution.
“Meanwhile efforts are ongoing to arrest the Director of Hospital now at large.
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“The general public are once again kindly requested to report any suspicious movement or criminality within their domain to the security agencies,” the source stated.
