Pastor, 5 others arrested for allegedly stealing 30 children

No fewer than six persons, a pastor, (names withheld) and  five others, that included three women, were arrested in Nkpor and Ogidi Communities, both in Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra  State,  by the police from Asaba,  Delta State Capital, for allegedly stealing 30 children.


The suspects who were picked on a tip-off in their various locations with the stolen under-aged children, were detained at Ogidi police station from where they were bundled into a waiting police van to Asaba.

It was gathered that the police team from Asaba spent two days in Anambra
to arrest the suspects from their hideouts.

A woman, Mrs. Miracle Mbonu, informed that her 11 months old son, was
stolen from their Eke Nkpor residence when she left him with her 9 years
old daughter for market.

“That day a woman disguised herself as a friend and told my kids that I was
her friend and that they should join her to look for me”, she hinted.

Crying profusely she said “as they joined her, she took them to New parts
market and from there, she escaped with my son having deceived my daughter
that she wanted to buy something for my son”.

Also another woman who pleaded anonymity said they stole her son at Ogidi
and pleaded to the police to help her produce her son.

When contacted the Ogidi Divisional Police Officers, DPO, Mr. Hassan Musa
said that the policemen who arrested the suspects came from Asaba and not from Ogidi Police Division

Photo depiction of Iyi Enu Ogidi students, it has nothing to do with the story