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Strange: Parents nabbed for selling children N5,000 in Benue State


Benue, the acclaimed food basket of the nation is in the news again, barely a month after a man was raped to death by his six jealous wives, another reporte reaching us from the state indicates that parents in Makurdi, were involved in the sale of their children to human traffickers at the sum of N4, 000 or N5,000 per ward.
This was revealed when the Quick Response Group Team of the Nigerian Army in Lokoja arrested one human trafficking suspect, Mr. Sunday Agbo, from Benue state.
While parading the suspect on Friday at the Army Headquarters, the Commandant of Army Record, Major General Alphonso Chukwu said the suspect was nabbed alongside 10 children, both male and female, on July 26 by his Quick Response Group Team, along Itobe-Ajaokuta road.
According to him, the suspect who hails from Obi Local Government Council of Benue State was arrested in a ash colour Toyota Camry car with the registration number CW 322 LSD with 10 children, comprising of six males and four females between the ages of seven and 19 heading to Lagos state.
He stated that when the suspect was confronted by his men, he said that the children belonged to him, but after further interrogation, he confessed that they were handed over to him by his agent, one Madam Janet Akpa, from the same village and that he was asked to deliver them to another agent in Lagos.
The Army Commandant stressed that investigations revealed that Agbo had been trafficking children by discussing with the parents and offering a mere sum of N4,000 or N5,000 naira under the pretext of getting them jobs in Lagos as househelps.
He enjoined parents to be vigilant so as not to fall prey of the human traffickers, stressed that the children were most vulnerable to ritualists.
While still waiting for further details, the suspect received a text message from the agent in Lagos that one of the children he earlier brought to Lagos had absconded from the house.
While speaking with the suspect, he disclosed that this was not his first time, adding that parents of the children were given a token amount of money ranging from N4000 to N5000 for each of the children.

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