Father Sells Son For N300k

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 .