Child Trafficking: 2 Women Arrested In Calabar With 5 Day-Old-Baby

[Shola Sholaz]

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Calabar on Saturday said it arrested two Camerounian women child trafficker's suspect with a five-day-old baby.
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The state NIS Comptroller, Mr Samuel Igoche, said the suspects include a legal practitioner, Mrs Ngala Nungu, 47, and Mrs Mende Cecilia, 54. Igoche told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Nungu claimed to have delivered the baby at a herbal clinic at Okitipupa in Ondo state.
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He said that Nungu claimed she spent N1.5 million to buy herbal medicine from the lady who owns the herbal clinic.
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He said that investigation conducted by immigration officials showed that Nungu never gave birth to the baby, adding that the child in her custody was from a source she refused to identify.
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Narrating her story to NAN, Nungu said she got information about the herbal clinic in Cameroun.
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She said she borrowed the money she used in buying the drugs which made her pregnant.
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"I came to Nigeria, met the woman who owns the herbal clinic and bought the drugs. One month after taking the drugs, I met with my husband and became pregnant,'' she said.
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Nungu said that she had not giving birth before and fed the baby with baby's food because her breast had no milk.
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She appealed to men of the NIS to release her and her baby to return home.
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Her friend Mende corroborated the story, saying that she witnessed the delivery of the baby.
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"I heard her screaming while in the delivery room and later heard the cry of a baby; I rushed in and saw the new born baby who was still covered with blood.

[Folami David]

Child trafficking is something that is sort of like a huge crime so it must just stop once and for all. It is very bad and they must be punished!