Sampson Itode, Port HarcourtThree women have been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command for child trafficking following a covert investigation. Promise, on her part, said she was arrested at a motor park when she tried to put the mother of a trafficked child in a commercial bus from Port Harcourt to Akwa Ibom State. Ogbonna confessed to taking the baby to the medical laboratory to conduct a medical test on it. In a related development, the police have arrested a 30-year-old man, Musa Babangida, for defiling his nine-year-old stepdaughter. It was gathered that the suspect and his wife lived in Rukpokwu, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.

Source: Punch July 23, 2020 01:07 UTC