Height of Wickedness: Man arrested for selling son

A middle-aged palm tree harvester, George Maduabuchi, from Owerrinta
in the Isiala-Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State is in the
police net for allegedly selling his 14-month-old son for N300,000.
The father of four was said to have connived with another suspect,
Obinna Erondu, now at large, to perpetrate the act.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joshak Habila, who paraded the suspect
along with other suspected criminals on Thursday, said, "Luck ran out
on Maduabuchi when the wife alerted the police on his questionable
role when the baby fell ill and he took him out and did not return
with him."
But the suspect told our correspondent that he did not sell his son,
but only took him to a herbalist when he took ill.
He said, "The herbalist gave me money and told me that he could not
heal the baby. I therefore left the baby in the herbalist's home."
But his explanation was countered by his wife, Eberechi, who said he
took their son, who had a cough to the said herbalist, but instead of
returning with the baby, rather came back with bundles of money.
She said, "When I demanded explanations on the whereabouts of our son,
he could not offer any convincing answer."
The wife, who is also pregnant, said she raised the alarm, which
attracted neighbours who helped to arrest the husband.
The neighbours subsequently alerted the police, who picked up the
husband who later led the police to the herbalist's house at Owerrinta
where the boy was recovered .
Paraded also by the police was one Chizaram Amandu, 40, who allegedly
murdered his kinsman over an argument over snails in the bush.
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The suspect, according to police, went to hunt for snail at Ahiaba
Okpuala Isiala Ngwa with the victim, Sampson Sunday.
The police added that quarrel ensued over sharing formula and the
suspect allegedly stabbed Sunday to death with dagger.
But the suspect said it was an accident as the victim came out to
confront him while hunting for snail behind his ( victim's) house in
the night .
According to him, he never knew the victim could die as a result of
injuries he sustained.
The police also paraded one Gideon Ezenwoko, a suspected kidnap
kingpin, who had been allegedly terrorising residents of the Obingwa
council area, adding that he had been on the wanted list of police .
The CP said, "The suspect escaped from prison, where most members of
his gang had been jailed.
"He will be arraigned as soon as investigations are over.
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