SHOCKING- How my own mother sold my 8-months old baby for N200k

Seventeen-year-old Blessing Godspower has told the police how her mother sold her eightmonth- old baby. Her 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 Blessing was delivered of the baby, her mother, who was not comfortable with the development, 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 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 a 53-year-old unmarried woman, Grace Nnadozie.” Nnadozie, however, told our correspondent that after she applied to an orphanage for a child without any result for the past two years, she sought Anyaegbu’s help. She said she gave Anyaegbu N500, 000 for the baby. Anyaegbu gave Maduako N350, 000, out of which Maduako gave 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. Baby Chiamaka has apparently gone farther than her tiny legs could possibly carry her. She was rescued after painstaking investigation by the police because she was sold and resold many times. Allegedly sold by her grandmother in Jos, Plateau State, she was eventually rescued in Awka, the Anambra State capital. Once her grandmother made up her mind to get rid of her, she was said to have found an ally in a woman living at Army Engineers area of Jos North, whom she sold the baby to. The woman was said to have resold the baby to another woman in Onitsha, using an intermediary. The baby was again sold to yet another woman in Onitsha, who again resold her to another woman in the same city. She eventually ended up with Grace Nnadozie, a 53-year-old unmarried woman before she was rescued by the police