A 42-year-old Cameroonian lady who gave her
name as Evelyn Atemkeng was, Wednesday, arrested in
Calabar with a three-day-old baby she allegedly bought for
N1.2 million.
Mrs Atemkeng accompanied by her 70-year-old mother,
Anastasia Fambong, was said to have bought the baby boy
from a matron of a clinic in Delta State into whose account
she paid the N1.2 million.
Commander of the Cross River State Immigration Command,
Mr Samuel Ichoi, who ordered the arrest of the woman told
Source in his office that his men accosted the lady while
boarding a ship to Cameroon and after interrogation, she
confessed that she bought the baby.
He said: “The lady came from Cameron on Friday without any
sign of pregnancy but this morning (Wednesday) she was
found to be carrying a baby and when my men examined her
there were no signs that she just gave birth, so she and the
baby were apprehended.”
According to Igoche, the lady also claimed that in May last
year, she was given some herbs at Okigwe where she
“miraculously gave birth to a baby girl who is now in
Cameroon.”
However, the lady who said she is a teacher in the North-West
region of Cameron told source that she gave birth to the
baby and that N1.2 million she paid into the account of the
matron was for delivery and herbs she gave to her to aid
delivery.
She said: “She (matron) said my breast would start producing
milk in three weeks but for now the baby is taking baby
food.”
According to her, she does not have anybody in Cameroon to
take care of her, that was why she came to Nigeria to deliver
before returning to her country.
“I am married and my husband is in Cameroon but there is
nobody to take care of me in Cameroon, that was why I
came to Nigeria to deliver,” she said.
The Anti Human Trafficking Officer of the Nigeria
Immigration Service at the Calabar Port, Mrs Agbor Ojong
Ogar, said she took time to examine the woman and she
does not have any sign that she just gave birth.
She said: “The woman passed here on Friday, she left on
Saturday and returned to Calabar on Tuesday and was
heading back to Cameron with a baby and when we examined
her she does not have any sign of having given birth
recently.”
Source:vanguard news
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