The Edo State Police Command has recovered little Miss Christabel Omokpia, the two-year old who was sold for N850,000 by an orphanage in Rivers State.
She was recovered in Enugu State, a police source told Igbere TV.
Igbere TV recalls that Christabel and her sister, Amanda, were stolen away from Utesi village in Ovia North-East Local Government Area by two female tenants of their father in June last year.
Their mother, Faith, was said to have left them in the care of the tenants, Mary and Rose, who disappeared with the children to unknown destination.
Christabel, Igbere TV learnt, was first sold for N450,000 by the tenants and she was later re-sold for N500,000 to one Ogechi Favour.
Again, she was re-sold for N850,000 to one Anioke Augustine in Enugu State.
Police sources said she was reunited with her family on Wednesday night.
When contacted by Igbere TV, the Edo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, said it was the Police Commissioner, Dan-Mallam Abubakar, that ordered for the recovery.
He said the search for Christabel took police operatives from Benin to Delta State, Anambra State, River State, Imo State and Enugu State.
The PPRO said four suspects earlier arrested in connection to the missing children were already in prisons in Ondo and Edo States.
On the whereabouts of Amanda, DSP Nwabuzor said the police would do its best to recover her.
