Nigeria’s Rivers State Police Command has arrested a 17-year-old boy, identified as Noble Uzuchi, over the impregnation of 10 women.
The suspect was nabbed alongside his associate, Chigozie Ogbonna, a 29-year-old guy.
According to the law enforcement authorities, the two suspects and two different women, Favour Bright, 30; and Peace Alikoi, 40, were allegedly strolling an infant manufacturing facility.
Pulse.Ng reports the Rivers Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Grace Iringe-Koko, as announcing that the arrests were finished following a tipoff.
In an announcement, the police chief stated that the four suspects operated inside the Obio/Akpor and Ikwerre local government regions of the kingdom earlier than their arrest.
She introduced the fact that the ten pregnant girls had been rescued by means of officials after the raid and arrest of the suspects.
“On Saturday, January 7, 2023, around 4:45 p.m., acting on credible intelligence available to the Rivers State Police Command, C4I Intelligence Unit operatives raided two houses in the Igwuruta and Omagwa groups, respectively, where sufferers of toddler trafficking were being saved.
“The sufferers rescued within the operation are 10, most of them pregnant,” Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, said within the statement.
She disclosed that investigations found that when a sufferer delivered her infant, the syndicate leader kept the kid and paid her a sum of N500,000, and that some of the babies previously added to the houses have been offered.
“All the sufferers confessed that they were lured to the illicit income of kids due to the need to fulfill a few financially demanding situations." A Honda Pilot Jeep, white, changed into "recovered from the syndicate leader.”
The case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further research and possible prosecution of the suspects.
Meanwhile, efforts are being made to apprehend the purchasers of the already purchased children.