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Imo Commissioner In Child Stealing Scandal

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An attempt by the Hon. Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development in Imo State, Mrs. Nma Love Onyechere to forcefully snatch a new born baby girl from her mother has set her hometown, Ihitte Ihube Community in Okigwe Local Government, literally ablaze.

According to village sources, the community is currently boiling over the commissioner’s order for the arrest of a widow in the area by the police.

Trouble, according to sources, erupted when the Commissioner forcefully attempted to collect a baby girl delivered by a popular mad woman in Ihube who handed and kept the child under the custody of a widow, Mrs. Mercelina Nwamgboko.

The Commissioner, sources disclosed, became infuriated when her entreaties to hoodwink and takeover the baby from the widow proved abortive, which prompted her to arrest the poor widow, an attempt that attracted the anger of Ihitte Ihube people who besieged Okigwe Police Station.

At the station, the irate crowd threatened to set the station ablaze if the police and Mrs. Onyechere refused to release the widow who they described as a very kind-hearted woman that deserves commendation and not to be victimized for being a Good Samaritan.

They confirmed that it was the widow who took care and catered for the mad woman during her pregnancy and also engaged the services of a nurse, one Mrs. Uhio to assist in delivering the mad woman of the baby girl during labour.

It was the intervention of the Transition Committee, TC, Chairman of Okigwe Local Government, Pastor Frank Onwumere that saved the situation and prevented the angry mob from venting their anger on the police station and causing mayhem in Okigwe metropolis.

On the plea of the TC boss, the widow was released on bail to one Charles Aruakpa, a community leader from the area while the people of Ihitte Community sources disclosed have contacted their lawyer to slug it out with the Women Affairs Commissioner.

They accused, and blasted her for” habitually hoodwinking and collecting babies from unsuspecting mothers, especially, widows and young girls after describing the babies as vulnerable children only to sell the babies in the long run”.

It would be recalled that the commissioner was accused by the villagers in the past of hoodwinking two young girls who gave birth out of wedlock and collected their babies in the pretext that they would be taken to motherless babies’ home.

But investigation by the villagers showed that the babies were sold by the commissioner as they were never seen again.

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