Seventeen-year-old Blessing Godspower,
on Wednesday narrated how her mother sold her (Godspower) eight-month-old baby.
The mother, Onyinyechi Nwabueze, 38,
was paraded by the police at the ‘A’ Division of the Plateau State Police
Command.
Policemen from the division, led by
the Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Victor Dimkpa, a Chief Superintendent of
Police, had rescued the baby, Chiamaka, in Awka, the Anambra State capital.
The story was exclusively reported by PUNCH
Metro on Friday.
Blessing, who was staying with her
mother at Rukuba Road area of Jos North, was allegedly put in the family way by
her boyfriend.
After Chiamaka was delivered,
Godspower’s mother, who was not comfortable with the development, allegedly
decided to get rid of the baby.
According to Blessing, on July 19,
her mother sent her on a phony errand in order to effect the “diabolical” act.
She said, “My mother sent me on an
errand, but when I came back I asked for my baby and my mother asked, ‘which
baby?’ She feigned ignorance and at that point I started crying and reported
the incident to the Police.”
Police Commissioner, Mr. Chris Olakpe
said, “After the mother sent her daughter away, she (Nwabueze) stopped a
tricycle and took the baby to the first receiver, one Eucharia Anyaegbu.
Anyaegbu transferred the baby to the second receiver, Rita Maduako, who finally
sold the baby to 53-year-old unmarried woman, Grace Nnadozie.”
Nnadozie, however, told our
correspondent that after she applied to an orphanage home for a child without
any result for the past two years, she sought Anyaegbu’s help.
She said she gave N500,000 to
Anyaegbu for the baby. Anyaegbu gave N350, 000 to Maduako. Maduako was to
give N200,000 to the baby’s grandmother.
But Nwabueze denied that she sold the
baby. She said her daughter was very wayward, so she decided to give the
baby out to somebody else who would take proper care of her.
She said, “How can I sell my
granddaughter. My daughter is not capable of taking care of the baby and I
decided to give her to somebody who will take proper care of her.”
Nwabueze explained that she lost her husband
in 2007 and since then, she and the six children she had with him, had been
finding things difficult.
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From all indications, it is the condition of this woman that pushed her to such act. All the same, she could have sent out of the house that stupid girl who gave birth to the baby to dance her music with the irresponsible boy firend. I think law should temper justice with mercy since she has not received any money for that!!
ReplyDeleteWht rubbish conditn, Ehn? Y did she no sel 1 of her own child? Y her grand child. Tnk God she's a mother, she knws ow painful it is 2 cary a child 4 9 mnth n labour pain. Hisssssssss..... She should b arrested n made 2 pay 4 her crime. Useless woman....
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