Notorious Abia child trafficker Arrested By Police In Abia
The notorious Abia child trafficker, Mrs. Mma Achumba, who has been on the wanted list of various security agencies has at last been picked up in Akwa Ibom where she had been hibernating.
Achumba whose illegal maternity home at Umunkpeyi in Isialangwa South Local Government Area of Abia State had severally been raided by security agencies 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.
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.
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