71-year-old retired pastor of a pentecostal church in Abia State, Rev. Chima Egbochiogum, and his wife, Ugo, have been arrested for an alleged illegal adoption of a baby.
The couple were paraded by the commissioner of Police, Joshak Habila, who allegedly said that they bought a stolen baby.
Apparently, they were both discovered when a notorious child trafficker confessed to a crime and named them as accomplices.
The child trafficker, identified as Ekwutosi, stole an 11-month-old baby girl of a 21-year-old pregnant mother, who he had pretended to assist with a job.
The excited woman was said to have left her baby in the custody of Ekwotosi when she went to buy food for her, “But by the time the mother returned, Ekwutosi had disappeared with the baby,” the police commissioner said.
According to Habila, the suspect was later intercepted by the police at Owerrinta when he was allegedly trafficking pregnant girls to Port Harcourt.
That was when he made his confessions including the fact that he sold the baby at the cost of N500, 000 to the wife of the pastor.
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