Police in Akwa Ibom State have paraded two child traffickers in the state. Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, CP Olatoye Duruosinmi who paraded the suspects on Wednesday gave a detailed account.
He said, “On the 9th August, 2023, operatives of Anti-Child Theft of the Command, in a rigorous investigation, arrested one Peace Patrick Paul who deceived one Utibeabasi Monday Enang, both of Obot Akara L.G.Area and stole her two children, aged three and five in the month of May, 2023.
“The said Peace Patrick Paul sold the two children to one Mary Eunice in Aba, Abia State who in turn sold them to one Bella Uko in Asaba, Delta State.
“Similarly, one Alayodi Paul Onyekwere of Abuloma, Rivers State was arrested for stealing an 11-year-old daughter of one Emmanuel Macaulay Daniel of Ikot Ikot Village in Obot Akara Local Government Area.
“Suspect alleged to have been sent by her grandmother to steal the child which she led operatives to recover from Rivers State. The children are here today and will be reunited to their families, the command appreciates the collaboration of Yak Iyamma and Arise the Frontline of Abolition of Trafficking in Person Project.”
The commissioner assured the people that his command would remain committed to the provision of top-notch security in Akwa Ibom State and on indigenes of the state to volunteer information that could lead to the arrest of criminal elements.
