Seventeen-year-old Blessing Godspower, on Wednesday narrated how her mother sold her (Godspower) eight-month-old baby.
The mother, Onyinyechi Nwabueze, 38, was paraded by the police at the ‘A’ Division of the Plateau State Police Command.
Policemen
from the division, led by the Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Victor
Dimkpa, a Chief Superintendent of Police, had rescued the baby,
Chiamaka, in Awka, the Anambra State capital.
Blessing, who was
staying with her mother at Rukuba Road area of Jos North, was allegedly
put in the family way by her boyfriend.
After Chiamaka was
delivered, Godspower’s mother, who was not comfortable with the
development, allegedly decided to get rid of the baby.
According to Blessing, on July 19, her mother sent her on a phony errand in order to effect the “diabolical” act.
She
said, “My mother sent me on an errand, but when I came back I asked for
my baby and my mother asked, ‘which baby?’ She feigned ignorance and at
that point I started crying and reported the incident to the Police.”
Police
Commissioner, Mr. Chris Olakpe said, “After the mother sent her
daughter away, she (Nwabueze) stopped a tricycle and took the baby to
the first receiver, one Eucharia Anyaegbu. Anyaegbu transferred the baby
to the second receiver, Rita Maduako, who finally sold the baby to
53-year-old unmarried woman, Grace Nnadozie.”
Nnadozie, however,
said that after she applied to an orphanage home for a child without any
result for the past two years, she sought Anyaegbu’s help.
She
said she gave N500,000 to Anyaegbu for the baby. Anyaegbu gave N350,000
to Maduako. Maduako was to give N200,000 to the baby’s grandmother.
But
Nwabueze denied that she sold the baby. She said her daughter was very
wayward, so she decided to give the baby out to somebody else who would
take proper care of her.
She said, “How can I sell my
granddaughter. My daughter is not capable of taking care of the baby and
I decided to give her to somebody who will take proper care of her.”
Nwabueze
explained that she lost her husband in 2007 and since then, she and the
six children she had with him, had been finding things difficult. READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/42077.html
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