Reverend Father & His Accomplice Arrested for Stealing and Selling Baby in Anambra (photo)

The Osun State Police Command has arrested a Reverend Father who claimed to be the parish priest at Our Lady of Fatima, Woliwo, Onitsha, Anambra State, Rev. Father Chike Ejiofor, for his alleged involvement in the stealing of an 18-month-old baby, Abdullahi Azeez, in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.

The Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye, led other officers to parade the suspects at the police headquarters in Osogbo on Thursday.

One of the suspects, 28-year-old Joy Esu, said she had approached the mother of the baby at her shop and pretended that she wanted to learn tailoring and the mother accepted.
Two days after, Esu said she absconded with the baby when the mother went to the market to buy some things.

She said she gave the baby to her boyfriend, Sidney Onwuka. who then sold the baby to one Maxwell Agu, who claimed to be running a government registered orphanage at Orlu, Imo State.

The cleric, during interrogationwith journalists, said he contacted the operator of the orphanage, after a woman called him that she needed a male child to adopt..

He said, “This woman, Elizabeth, met me after adoration and said she wanted to adopt a male child. I contacted Maxwell (Agu) because I know that he has an orphanage. He brought a form for adoption.

My hands, legs and entire body are in the trap now, how do I extricate myself? I only wanted to help the woman; I had no other intention.”

The CP said the baby was sold for N800,000 and the sale of the baby was facilitated by the reverend father.

He said the suspects stole the baby and drugged him so that he would not cry out when they were taking him away from Osun State.

 

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