SAN FRANCISCO, August 05, (THEWILL) – Chidimma Okorie, a 29-year-old woman from Amasiri, Ebonyi State, has admitted that she had already sold her unborn child for N100,000 to a lady evangelist.
She made the confession at the headquarters of the Anambra State Police Command in Awka, when she was paraded with two medical doctors for alleged child trafficking.
The doctors, who were said to be Okorie’s accomplices, were identified as Emmanuel Tobechukwu and Cosmos Ugorji.
“I sold the two children at N50,000 each. I, myself, am pregnant now and the evangelist said when I’m delivered of my baby, she would buy it for N100,000,” she confessed.
“I have five children; but I’m not married. I have not sold any of my children; but I have sold two children, starting with the child of a pastor that I first stole.
“I’m pregnant and I have agreed to sell my baby to the evangelist for N100,000 when I give birth.
“Madam brought three of us (girls) from Ebonyi to Anambra State and took us to a shrine in Asaba where she collected our blood for voodoo so that we will not reveal to anybody the type of business we do.”
The state Police Public Relations officer, Nkeiru Nwode, said the suspects were arrested on Wednesday after a tip off adding that two of the accomplices, a nurse and a female evangelist, whose names were not given as of press time, were still at large.
However, the doctors denied any involvement in the trade saying they only conducted blood tests for the suspect saying that the lady, whom Okorie named as her accomplice in child trafficking, was only coming to the hospital’s laboratory to conduct blood sample tests.
“I don’t know this girl (Okorie) because I have not seen her before. I was surprised to see the police storm my hospital yesterday (Wednesday) talking about child trafficking. Today, they brought us here,” Ugorji said.
This was also stated by Tobechukwu: “this woman (Okorie) has a medical condition, which I won’t want to discuss here. She was brought by one woman, who said she was a nurse. I didn’t document their addresses because we did not do any treatment. What we did was blood test and they left.
I’m from Enugu and I’m working in somebody’s hospital at Nkpor. I have nothing to do with child trafficking.”
Story by David Oputah
