The Akwa Ibom Police Command says
it has arrested one Peace Chukwuemeka, 30, for allegedly stealing a month-old
baby from her mother.
The Commissioner of Police in the
state, Murtala Mani, disclosed this while addressing newsmen on the activities
of the command in Uyo on Tuesday.
Mani spoke through the Police
Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Cordelia Nwawe.
He said that the suspect lived in
the same compound with the mother of the baby at Mbak Itam in Itu Local
Government Area.
He said that the family unit of
the command through intelligence trailed the suspect, rescued and reunited the
baby with her mother.
In November, the ACID Section
through the Family Unit recorded a great feat by bringing back a one month and
some few days old baby to her mother in Akwa Ibom.
The suspect, a trader, who has
been married for some years without a baby, left Lagos state to Uyo, stayed in
a compound in Mbak Itam with the intention to steal a baby from her neighbour.
The family unit through intelligence
report was able to rescue the baby back to the mother,” Mani said.
Confessing to the crime, Peace
Chukwuemeka said she was married for 10 years and was desperate to have a baby.
She, however, denied giving the
mother drug before stealing the baby.
She said: “I did not give
anything to the mother, it was a coincident she was asleep and I seized that
opportunity to take the baby.
“I have married for 10 years now
so I needed a baby of my own. I took the baby to my mother in the village but
she refused to collect her from me.
So I came back to Akwa Ibom and
the owner of the baby started asking me of her baby, so I was arrested,”
Chukwuemeka said.
Speaking to the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) the baby’s mother, Fatima Ibrahim, thanked God for bringing back
her baby.
She said that the suspect was
staying with them in the same compound at Mbak Itam, adding that she “drugged”
her to sleep and thereafter stole her baby.
NAN
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