A couple have confessed that economic hardship made them to sell their two-day-old baby girl.
35-year-old Ugorji,and Happiness already have four children when the fifth one came along and due to hardship, they could not care for her and therefore decided to sell the baby to foster parents.
Happiness said, “My husband and I decided to sell our baby because of hardship. We have four children and my husband is not working. When I was pregnant, there was no money for me to go for antenatal and feeding was even a problem for us. That was why we decided to sell our baby.”
She added that it was the nurse who delivered her of the baby that connected them to the lady who helped them to sell the baby for the sum of N300,000.
The husband Ugorji, an orphan claimed to be jobless thus agreed with his wife to sell his baby to raise money for his family.
He said, “I was riding a tricycle on hire/purchase in Port Harcourt, but when I could not meet up with the payment, the owner collected it from me. So, we relocated to my village in Isiala Ngwa and since then, I have not got any other job and I have nobody to help us because I am an orphan.
“It was my village people who informed the police that I sold my baby because I couldn’t give them a proper account of my baby when they discovered that my wife was not pregnant again.”
Their accomplice in the crime identified as Nma said the couple had approached her to help them adopt the baby to a foster parent who could take care of the baby.
Nma said she invited one pastor who had lived with his wife for 28 years without any child to adopt the baby and the pastor adopted the baby for N300, 000.
Known for child trafficking in the state, Nma denied benefitting anything from the money given to the couple, adding that the pastor gave the money to Ugorji and his wife.
The Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr. Anthony Ogbizi, has confirmed the incident.
He warned anybody who wanted to adopt children in the state to follow due process and avoid going through illegal means.
The CP added that investigation aimed at fishing out the buyers of the baby was ongoing.
*Is having a baby and selling it not the same thing as one when is a surrogate mum and gives up the baby after nine months?I dont understand how in the World anyone can carry a baby and give it up after nine months and say they felt no connection......
You have four kids already. Family planning is cheap, condom is cheaper....it is well.
ReplyDeletestella look at your title again:
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How can one sell a baby she carried for nine months? Even if the husband agreed, what of the wife that carried the baby, how can she agree? Use condom una no go hear, saying raw sweet pass now see your life outside.... Nonsense
ReplyDeleteIt's painful considering the fact that there a lot of ppl here looking for ways to get pregnant for a child but no way yet a woman who does not need a child will be giving birth every now and then.
DeleteStella you sound very ignorant and stop disrespecting women who volunteer their reproductive system to help other women care their baby. If you can’t see yourself doing the service, that is within your right, but don’t disrespect women who choose to do it. It is like saying I don’t understand why a wife will accuse her husband of rape. They are married. Very ignorant and offensive statement from you. Abeg go educate yourself. Stop disrespect people and comparing them to that wicked monster of a woman in this article.
ReplyDeleteThey are here on this blog too. Giving birth like rats and begging.
ReplyDeleteAll they know how to do well is FUCK. Hustle, they cannot hustle. If they don't sell the children when they are babies, they give them out as house boys and house girls when they are teenagers. Useless parents.
Some people can be heartless sha
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