BY AUSTIN OGWUDA
ASABA — AN Asaba-based couple have
been arrested for allegedly selling their
new born twins for N200,000 each.
The incident, according to the Delta State
Police Command’s spokesman, Mr. Lucky
Uyabeme, took place last Sunday, while
the buyer of the twins based in Lagos
and a Social Welfare Officer who
allegedly brokered the transaction have
equally been arrested.
According to Uyabeme, “on Sunday, at
about 3.10 p.m, the Chairman of Asaba
Community Policing, Mr. Anthony
Okonkevo, arrested a couple, Augustine
Agbona and his wife, Ebere, living at the
back of NTA Asaba, for child stealing and
handed them over to the Divisional
Police Officer ‘A’ Division police station,
Asaba.
“However, police investigation revealed
that the said Ebere Agbona, delivered a
set of twin babies a boy and a girl a few
days earlier, at Federal Medical Centre,
FMC, Asaba and sold them to one
Anwulie Okogwu, who resides in Lagos
at the rate of N200,000 each through
one Ebele Ofuani of Ogwashi-Uku.
“Meanwhile, the said Ebere Ofuani has
been arrested and the babies recovered
and handed over to the Ministry of
Women Affairs and Social Welfare Asaba
for proper care.
Also, one Oniyeogali Okolie of Social
Welfare Issele-Uku said to be the
mastermind of the business has been
arrested. Investigation into the case is
said to be on-going.
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