The Enugu State Police Command has
arraigned three women for alleged conspiracy, trafficking of newborn twins and
subsequent killing of their mother.
This was contained in a statement by the
command’s spokesman Daniel Ndukwe.
The statement noted that the suspects;
Ukorie Cynthia (25), Onyia Pauline (56) and Aroh Ijeoma (39) were remanded in
the Enugu Maximum Correctional Centre on Friday.
The statement added that the trio was
arrested by operatives of the command attached to the Central Police Station, Enugu
on July 26, 2022 following complaints that the suspects had conspired and sold
newborn twins of one 31-year-old Chinenye Odoh.
The statement noted alleged that the
suspects did not stop with the selling of the twins, but also murdered their
mother by poisoning her food after she realised that the suspects shortchanged
her by giving her an amount lesser than the amount they sold her babies.
According to the police Ukorie Cynthia
accommodated the deceased in her house till she put to bed on 05/07/2022, while
Aroh Ijeoma facilitated the sale of the babies by contacting Onyia Pauline, a
nurse, who brought a couple that bought the babies upon their birth at the sum
of three million naira (N3,000,000.00).
“Contrary to this sum, Ijeoma informed the
deceased and mother of the babies, Chinenye, that the children were sold for
two million, three hundred and fifty thousand naira (N2,350,000.00) and
thereafter, gave her the sum of one million, eight hundred thousand naira
(N1,800,000.00); gave Cynthia and Pauline fifty thousand naira (N50,000.00)
each; and kept the remaining proceed to herself.
“However, when the deceased and mother of
the babies eventually found out the exact amount they sold the babies, she
demanded for the balance, but was thereafter said to have eaten a suspected
poisoned corn given to her by Cynthia, leading to her death”, the statement
said.
According to the statement, the case has
been adjourned tilll October 5, 2022 for trial.