Police Arrest Notorious Isialangwa Child Traffficker

Mrs. Mma Achumba, the notorious Abia child trafficker, who has been on the wanted list of various security agencies has at last been picked up in Akwa Ibom where she had been hiding, Punch online reports.

An illegal maternity home at Umunkpeyi in Isialangwa South Local Government Area of Abia State owned by Achumba had been raided severally by security agencies and she had been linked with many child trafficking incidents.

Police said she had evaded arrest for over five years now. A secret baby factory which was being manned by her son at a remote village in Olokoro in Umuahia South was last year demolished by the state government.

Police Arrest Notorious Isialangwa Child Traffficker

No fewer than 19 pregnant young women were rescued last year  from a baby factory located in Isiala Ngwa South local government area, during a raid by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. It is believed Achumba owned the factory.

Government had also proscribed all maternity homes in the state as part of measures to clamp down on ‘baby factory’ menace in the state.

Parading the suspect on Friday at the Police Officers Mess Umuahia,the Commissioner of Police, Joshak Habila, said one Ogechi Kalu from Ebonyi State had reported that a couple she was living with conspired and sold her six-months-old baby boy to the suspect for N150,000.

The CP said the sold baby was later recovered from an old woman at Umunkpeyi while the suspect fled but was trailed to Akwa Ibom by detectives of the State’s Criminal Investigative Department.

The war against child trafficking is one that the government and security agents have continued to fight, however, Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari speaking at a women’s rally in Edo state admitted that a girl-child trafficking was a major problem in the country and promised that her husband, if elected, will arrest the situation.