Vigilante nabs 3 over alleged theft of lunatic’s day-old baby

[MrVan]

BY FESTUS AHON

UGHELLI -  OKPARA Vigilante group in Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State, weekend, arrested three women for allegedly stealing a day-old baby boy from her lunatic mother.

The women, Vanguard gathered, were trailed by the local vigilante after the lunatic, known as Yenrowon Akpotare, a native of Ughelli, though staying in Okpara-Inland, had raised alarm over the snatching of her day-old baby.

Chairman of  Okpara-Inland vigilante, Mr Ovoke Ubuara, who spoke to Vanguard, alleged that the three women conspired to steal the child from the lunatic.

He said Patience Ikpesu, 32 and her elder sister, Vivian Ikpesu, 35, a widow and mother of three, took the baby from where the mother laid him, while Patience brandished a cutlass at the helpless lunatic apparently to scare her away.

Ubuara alleged that Queen Otite,  40, a native of Kokori married to Okpara man told them after she was arrested, that she was the one who informed the two sisters, who came in from Warri, of the lunatic putting to bed, a baby boy.

The vigilante chairman said, "Queen said she did not know that the two sisters would steal the child and drove them out of her house when she saw them with the baby some hours later."

Patience Ikpesu, who confessed to the crime, however, said her intention was to take the baby to Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, where she resides for proper unbringing and not to steal him.

Vanguard Nigeria

[Jobbers]

Serious! No one knows where the true lies... Even though she was interested in taking care of the baby, she ought to have gone legal. Motherless baby homes are there also to harness. Certainly, something is wrong somewhere! Or what do you think?