custody for allegedly snatching a child from a
woman
- He allegedly sold the child for the sum of N600,000
before he was caught
- He has been dismissed from Nigeria Police Force
while he awaits trial in court
A police corporal Uche Odoemena, popularly
known as Prince, has been arrested by officers
of the Nigeria Police Force Imo state command.
Unnamed sources told The Punch on Thursday,
January 19 that the police corporal, who is
currently held at the federal prisons, was
arrested in Okigwe and taken to Owerri on
Wednesday, January 18.
Police officer arrested for child trafficking
The unnamed sources also claimed that
Odoemena, who is married to a police sergeant
identified as Cynthia Odoemena attached to the
command headquarters in Owerri, was an
alleged habitual human trafficker.
The police officer had allegedly snatched a
newborn baby from a mother in Anambra state
at gunpoint and sold the child for N600,000.
Upon the nursing mother’s complaint, the
commissioner of police, who was enraged at the
development, had allegedly ordered that the
corporal be dismissed immediately and be
prosecuted accordingly.
At the time of filing its report, The Punch
reports that efforts made to get the reaction
from the command’s public relations officer
Andrew Enwerem proved abortive as he neither
picked the call put to his mobile phone number
nor responded to the text message Sent to him.
But another police source, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity, confirmed the incident.
He said that the police corporal had be
dismissed after being tried in the police orderly
room by the CP’s instruction and remanded at
federal prisons, Owerri, after he was arraigned
in court on Thursday morning by the police.
The police source said: “He has been dismissed after
the CP ordered that he be tried immediately in the
orderly room. He is no longer a police officer that is
why we can arraign him in court.”
The man, identified as Nuhu Adams who denied
the police's claims, stated that he is an
evangelist.
Parading the suspect, the Nasarawa state
commissioner of police Abubakar Bello said his
men received intelligence report that the
suspect had in his custody eight children
between the ages of six and 17.
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