.Uju Okonkwo, a 43-year-old fake nurse, and Ezurum Joseph, a fake
lawyer who claimed to have graduated from the Nnamdi Azikwe University
(NAU), Anambra State, in 2011 with registration number 39017, were
arrested in Asaba, Delta State, for selling a 3-month-old baby to a
Lagos-based businessman for N500,000.
Joseph
provided the hideouts where Okonkwo was using to harbour her victims
and stood as the her solicitor. He confessed to have dropped out of
school. 3 human trafficking victims, Chinyere Ude, 19, Happiness Igwe,
20, and Esther Frank, 17, who were in their late stages of pregnancy,
were rescued from the traffickers’ den.
The girls disclosed that they were brought to the hideout by
Okonkwo, a widow, who claimed to have worked at Chinonso Hospital,
Nkpor, Anambra State, for the purpose of selling their babies after
delivery.
The state Commissioner of Police, Zanna Ibrahim, said the suspects were helping in the investigations.