PARENTS SELL CHILDREN FOR N4,000 IN MAKURDI!!

REPORTS have indicated that parents in
Makurdi, the Benue State capital, 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.
Parading the suspect to newsmen on
Friday at the Army Headquarters, the
Commandant of Army Record, Major
General Alphonso Chukwu said the suspect
was arrested 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 house helps.
The Army Commandant who enjoined
parents to be vigilant so as not to fall prey of
the human traffickers, stressed that the
children were most vulnerable to ritualists.
One of the children, Blessing Jacob, who said
she had just finished her promotional
examination to SSS 2 said she was told to
follow the suspect to Lagos for her holiday
where she would work for a while.
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 to us 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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