While presenting the babies back to their parents at the Imo State Police Command Headquarters in Owerri, the Imo State capital, the state police commissioner, Abdulmajid Ali, vowed that the Imo State Police Command would not rest until the issue of child stealing and child trafficking were brought to its barest minimal.
The Imo police boss said that three suspects had been arrested in connection to the incident and they are presently cooling their feet in the police cell as investigations are ongoing.
While narrating the incidence, the head of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Imo police command, Mrs Elizabeth Okosun, said the police were able to recover one of the babies after a tip-off by a commercial tricycle rider who suspected the shady behaviour of the suspects when they were about travelling with the baby to another state.
Vivien Iwuji , a 24 year old student, said that she was deceived by her sister-in-law that a family friend will take care of her baby after delivery not knowing she had the intention of selling her baby.
The Imo Police commission appealed to religious and community leaders to furnish the police with adequate information if any woman or family without a history of a recent pregnancy was seen with a newborn baby.
Two hundred years after the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the trafficking of African children continues unabated. This is one of the most horrific violations of a child’s right. Trafficking can be defined as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation”. Reasons for trafficking children include: sexual exploitation, forced labour and/or slavery, domestic servitude, forced marriages, illegal adoptions, and even forced organ removal or human sacrifice.
Nigeria acts as a source, transit and destination country for trafficking children to Europe, the Middle East and other countries throughout Africa. UNICEF has estimated that over 1.2 million children worldwide are trafficked each year. The highest rates of child trafficking in Nigeria are found in the Niger Delta region, according to research by NAPTIP, the Nigerian Anti-Trafficking Agency.
While narrating the incidence, the head of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Imo police command, Mrs Elizabeth Okosun, said the police were able to recover one of the babies after a tip-off by a commercial tricycle rider who suspected the shady behaviour of the suspects when they were about travelling with the baby to another state.
Vivien Iwuji , a 24 year old student, said that she was deceived by her sister-in-law that a family friend will take care of her baby after delivery not knowing she had the intention of selling her baby.
The Imo Police commission appealed to religious and community leaders to furnish the police with adequate information if any woman or family without a history of a recent pregnancy was seen with a newborn baby.
Two hundred years after the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the trafficking of African children continues unabated. This is one of the most horrific violations of a child’s right. Trafficking can be defined as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation”. Reasons for trafficking children include: sexual exploitation, forced labour and/or slavery, domestic servitude, forced marriages, illegal adoptions, and even forced organ removal or human sacrifice.
Nigeria acts as a source, transit and destination country for trafficking children to Europe, the Middle East and other countries throughout Africa. UNICEF has estimated that over 1.2 million children worldwide are trafficked each year. The highest rates of child trafficking in Nigeria are found in the Niger Delta region, according to research by NAPTIP, the Nigerian Anti-Trafficking Agency.
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