DIRECTOR HELD FOR CHILD TRAFFICKING

Deputy Director in the Anambra State Ministry of Women Affairs, Mrs. Sabina Izuora, has been arrested for alleged child trafficking.

Also being held is the proprietress of the Umunna Motherless Babies’ Home in Onitsha South Local Government.

She was arrested with another suspect, Mrs. Bassey Gabriel, from Calabar in Cross River State, following the discovery of a three-day-old and a three-month-old babies in their possession.
Police spokesman Emeka Chukwuemeka told reporters yesterday in Awka that the police were tipped off by terminus workers in Onitsha.

 
The Nation learnt that Mrs. Izuora had been in the business for sometime. Although she claimed she had done it only once.

One of the babies at the home has been missing since December. He is yet to be found.
The third suspect, Nkolo Anthony, is a sister to Mrs. Gabriel’s sister.

Mrs. Izuora told The Nation that she paid N150,000 to the facilitator of the babies in Calabar, who also works in the Cross River State Ministry of Women Affairs.
-The Nation