CRIME: Akwa Ibom State Police Command Burst Trafficking Syndicates, Nabs 4 Fake EFCC 

From Imoh ESSIEN (Uyo)

Akwa Ibom State police command has bursted child trafficking syndicates and arrested 3 suspects 

The suspects arrested based on intelligence report include 
one Michael Emmanuel Edet ‘m’, Ability Henry Tom ‘f’, and one Uwem Udoh Moses ‘f’.

 The were arrested from their hideouts within Ibesikpo and Aka Etinan road for stealing a child (name withheld) ‘m’ 12yrs while he was hawking groundnut along Oron road and was taken to Ovum community in Obingwa L.G.A Abia state. 

The state commissioner for police, Waheed Ayilara, who paraded the suspects alongside others, said the child was sold out for the sum of four hundred thousand Naira (N400,000) to one Loveth Nkwankwo ‘f’ of Ovum community, Obingwa L.G.A.

He added that further investigation led to the arrest of the said Loveth Nkwakwo in Abia state, saying the suspects had confessed to the crime and promised to help arrest other fleeing members in their syndicate even as he explained that the victim was rescued with others.

Ayilara noted that all suspects would be charged in court at the end of investigations and urged the people of Akwa Ibom to always provide police with useful information that would help in the eradication of crime and criminal elements in the state.