A man from Akwa Ibom State, Magnus Nsikak, 40,
has shown himself to be an unworthy stonehearted parent with a twisted mind.
Nsikak
was alleged to have conspired with his wife, Ruth, 28, to sell their three
sons, three-day-old Samuel, five-year-old Ubong and 10-year-old Ekpo in
Ikot-Abaji Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, to a trafficker in Aba, Abia
State, through a nurse in the city.
But Ruth vehemently denied any knowledge of
the evil deed, saying that she was actually deceived by her husband about the
true status of the children, who she had been led to believe were being cared
for by a member of their extended family in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State
capital.
The couple are now in
the custody of the Family Support Unit of the State Criminal Investigation
Department, SCID, Akwa Ibom State Police Command, where they are being
interrogated.
As
Sunday Sun learnt from the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zubairu Muazu, ongoing
investigation has yielded a positive result as the eldest son, Ekpo has been
recovered while efforts are being intensified by detectives to track down and
recover the other two.
Muazu disclosed that
the cookie began to crumble when the younger brother of Ruth became curious
about the sudden absence of the children of his sister.
He asked
the brother-in-law, Magnus, about them and got less-than-satisfactory answer
from him. His further probe led to an altercation between them. Magnus later
confessed his evil deed. Ruth’s brother was incensed by the horrific thing he
heard and a fight broke out between him and Magnus. He was said to have beaten
his in-law black and blue.
Ruth rushed to the
Mkpat Enin Police Station to file a complaint against her brother on October
23, 2017.
In the
course of questioning to ascertain the facts, Muazu explained that the truth
tumbled out and she was detained. Her husband was also arrested and the case
was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Uyo, Akwa State
capital, from where the matter was handed over to the Anti-Human Trafficking
Section of the SCID on November 2, 2017.
Then
November 9, Magnus led detectives to Aba, Abia State, to arrest the nurse,
Stella Uchendu, 40, who arranged the illegal deal. She in turn took detectives
to the home of Joy Ikechukwu, where Ekpo was recovered.
Muazu
added that police detectives also arrested another suspect, Eucharia Daniel,
who bought the three-day-old baby for N300,000 naira from Uchendu. He said that
Uchendu passed on the baby to Joy Ikechukwu, who resold the newborn child to
Judith Solomon Charles, for N500,000.
Sunday
Sun further learnt that on the day that police detectives brought Joy to her
home, Judith was said to have slumped in shock. Detectives quickly rushed her
to a hospital, where she died.
On what
could have led him into the evil deed, Magnus told Sunday Sun that he was beset
by adversity.
The nurse, Uchendu, in a chat with Sunday Sun admitted
knowing Magnus, who she said was dealing in scraps. She added that Magnus had
informed her that he could no longer cater for his three sons and expressed
interest in selling them off. She agreed to buy the three sons.
- Sun News
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