Gombe state police command has recovered twelve children from a 55-year old suspect, Nkechi Odiliyen.
The suspect, Odiliyen who was the former Councillor from Ndemili North local government area of Anambra state, has been arrested over alleged child-trafficking.
This was disclosed by the Police commissioner, Gombe state command, Maikudi Shehu during a briefing on Monday, where he disclosed that the suspect has been on the run since 2017.
According to the Commissioner, the arrest of the suspect followed efforts put by Governor Mohammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe state who provided the needed logistics to the police.
He said that the governor also provided feeding, medical care, accommodation and other necessary care to the trafficked children when they were recovered from the alleged suspect.
According to the CP, Nkechi was arrested alongside three accomplices, a man and two women.
CP Maikudi who said twelve children were recovered from the suspects added that the ring leader, Nkechi had during interrogation confessed to have sold eleven children to some merchants from Asaba in Delta State.
Nkechi, who explained that she was running an official motherless babies home in Anambra confessed to trading in children.
She said, “I buy male children for N300,000 and female for N250,000. But I sell each for N750,000 to interested buyers.”
One of her accomplices, Hauwa Abubakar from Gombe state, confessed to be part of the ugly selling of the trafficked children to ritualists.
Hauwa said she had supplied Nkechi with seven abducted children.
Another suspect, Faith Nkpor who had been in remand for over a year said she once bought two male children from the syndicate.
The Gombe state government through the Commissioner for internal security, Dauda Batari attributed the rampant cases of child-trafficking to the operations of illegal motor parks, promising government’s action.
His women affairs counterpart, Naomi Awak described it as traumatic the agony of three years separation of children and parents.
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