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By PAMELA EBOH, Awka
A 10-year-old child who was allegedly sold two years ago to a couple in Anambra State at the rate of N800,000 has been recovered by detectives attached to 33 Division, Onitsha.
It was gathered that the child’s original name was Favour Asuquo before her new parents (the suspects) changed it to Faith Ezeukwu.
The child’s captors were said to have stolen her from Akwa Ibom and sold her in Anambra State.
A statement on Sunday by the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Haruna Mohammed, partly reads: “On the 21/2/2020, a 10-year-old child reasonably suspected to have been stolen from Akwa Ibom State since 2018 and sold to a couple in Anambra State at the rate of Eight Hundred Thousand Naira (N800,000) was rescued by Police detectives attached to 33 division, Onitsha following intelligence report.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that the child’s original name was Favour Asuqwo before her ‘new parents’ the suspects who are now in police custody gave her a new name as Faith Ezeukwu after they allegedly bought her from her captors presently at large.”
The PPRO called on people with useful information about the rescued child to report at the 33 Police Station Onitsha or contact PPRO Anambra State Police Command headquarters Awka through GSM No. 08060970639.
