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| Mrs Evelyn Atemkeng, the suspect and the 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 Cameron 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 Cameron 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 Cameron with a baby and when we examined her she does not have
any sign of having given birth recently.”
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