Anambra Women Affairs Commissioner Rescues Baby Sold By Grandmother… 

The Anambra Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare Honourable Ify Obinabo has rescued a three-month-old baby who had been sold by the grandmother.

The rescue was in response to a report by one Ijeoma Nwosu, who claimed that Oluchukwu Nwosu, her mother, forcefully sold her baby soon after he was born and has since refused to tell her where he is.

Receiving the report, the Women and Social Welfare Commissioner immediately took action to identify and apprehend the perpetrators.

After almost a month of consistent intelligence surveillance by the State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare Awka, the offenders were caught.

Speaking on the incident , Honourable Obinabo bemoaned the fact that, despite the state government’s efforts to put an end to all forms of illegal adoption, some careless people have continued to practice the crime.

Honourable Obinabo warned that anyone found participating in an unlawful adoption must face legal action.

On her part, Mrs. Nwosu claimed that due to their low income and lack of childcare, they have had trouble feeding themselves from the time her daughter gave birth to the present baby.

Mrs. Nwosu described how she came across a buyer, one Tochukwu Asiegbu, who after some haggling paid her the agreed upon sum.

Tochukwu Asiegbu claimed that because he gave Oluchukwu Nwosu the proceeds, he only got a profit of thirty thousand naira from the deal.

Sadly, such wasn’t the case with the buyer from Uruagu Nnewi, who reported that she paid one Ebelechukwu Uba from Ebonyi but a resident of Anambra the sum of two hundred thousand naira to get the child for her.