Parents Now Sell Their Children For N4000 - N5000 In Makurdi
Monday, July 30, 2012Omoba
REPORTS have indicated
that parents in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, were involved in the sale of
their children to human traffickers at the sum of N4,000 or N5,000 per ward.
Parading the suspect to newsmen on
Friday at the Army Headquarters, the Commandant of Army Record, Major General
Alphonso Chukwu said the suspect was arrested alongside 10 children, both male
and female, on July 26 by his Quick Response Group Team, along Itobe-Ajaokuta
road.
According to him, the suspect who hails from Obi Local Government Council of
Benue State was arrested in a ash colour Toyota Camry car with the registration
number CW 322 LSD with 10 children, comprising of six males and four females between
the ages of seven and 19 heading to Lagos state.
He stated that when the suspect was
confronted by his men, he said that the children belonged to him, but after
further interrogation, he confessed that they were handed over to him by his
agent, one Madam Janet Akpa, from the same village and that he was asked to
deliver them to another agent in Lagos
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