Child trafficking: Police rescue seven pregnant teenagers in Enugu

The Enugu State Police Command has rescued seven pregnant teenagers alleged to have been abducted by two medical doctors and a matron working at a private hospital in Enugu as well as one social worker, now said to be on the run to evade arrest by the police for alleged abduction and child trafficking.

The newly posted Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, Mr Sani Magaji, made this known when he paraded victims of alleged abduction, along side seven suspected armed robbers arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the command.

The seven pregnant youngsters, who were paraded before the public at the headquarters of the command last Monday, were said to have been abducted by persons now at large and confined at the hospital where they would be delivered of their babies and subsequently forcefully taken away from them for sale.

The escape of one of the quarantined pregnant ladies, one Ifeoma Eze, from the confinement at the hospital, was given as what led to bursting of the syndicate by the police.

The police gave the name of the said hospital as ‘Denis Memorial Hospital’, Udi Siding, Enugu, while four other persons now helping the police in their investigations are said to be part of the syndicate.

According to the police, efforts were being made to arrest the suspects at large, adding that they would be handed over to the appropriate government agency, NAPTIP, for prosecution.

The police at the same event paraded seven suspected armed robbers, among them were two young men who were said to have robbed an Hausa wrist watch hawker of his wares.

The commissioner of police, therefore, used the occasion to reassure the people of the state that the command was battling crime rate in the state to the barest minimum, pointing out that it would leave no stone unturned in checking the activities of hoodlums in the state.