[ 2013-08-23 ]

Cameroonian lady nabbed for buying 3-day-old Nigerian baby
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 Vanguard 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 Cameroon 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 Cameroon told Vanguard 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 Cameroon with a
baby and when we examined her she does not have
any sign of having given birth recently.”

Source - Nigeria | Vanguardngr.com

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