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.
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.
Culled from Punch
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