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NEWS : A Frustrated Father Puts Up His Seven Kids For Sale.

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The 44-year-old man, Israel Dike, a native of Odenkume, Obowo Local Government Aarea of Imo State, who resides in Ugwu Ekwema, Egbu Road, Owerri, was going to sell his children, including his set of triplets.

The children’s hands were securely tied to a wheelbarrow while the man was soliciting for buyers for the children, saying he was fed up with his dwindling economic fortunes.

According to a of the staff of the Ministry of Women Affairs who spoke to Vanguard, “Following a tip off, a high powered team led by the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Nma Onyechere, quickly went and rescued the children.”

Disclosing that he planned selling some of them with a view to enabling him take proper care of others, Dike equally lamented that Governor Rochas Okorocha put him in the mess he has found himself today.

“Owelle Okorocha is the cause of what I am passing through today. He made me a promise in the past and has failed to redeem it till today,” Dike said.

Speaking to newsmen at the scene, the commissioner described Dike as a “depressed man, who is mentally deranged.”

While urging Dike’s wife to go for family planning, the commissioner equally promised that government would carefully ascertain the level of the man’s mental problem.

Mrs. Onyechere also said the ministry would find a way of giving out the children to foster parents with a view to ensuring adequate care and their education.

Police arrests Middle-aged Man for Selling Cousin at N8m

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The police in Nasarawa State on Tuesday said they have arrested in Keffi a middle-aged man, Musa Adamu, for selling his cousin at the cost of N8 million.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Umaru Shehu, told newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Lafia that the suspect would be charged to court after the conclusion of investigation.

The commissioner said preliminary investigation indicated that the suspect, who hails from Rijau in Niger, had sold his cousin at the sum of N8 million.

“The suspect agreed that he sold his cousin, and that he told the boy to come and meet him in Keffi after giving him transport money.

“He also said that he went to a point where he (the cousin) was slaughtered.

“He agreed that the people bought the boy for that sum, where his head, legs, eyes and every other thing were removed separately.

“It was in the process of this that luck ran out on them and my men arrested the suspect,” he said.

Shehu said the suspect had already collected the sum of N100,000 from the buyer before he was apprehended, following a tip-off.

Similarly, the commissioner said men of his command had on Jan. 15 arrested one Dan Anze in the Akwanga Local Government Area with 25 bags of Indian hemp.

In the same vein, Shehu also brought before newsmen some suspects arrested by the command for alleged robbery.

He listed items recovered from the suspects to include one locally-made revolver with several rounds of ammunition, five cutlasses and some quantity of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.

Shehu urged members of the public to assist the police with useful information that could help in apprehending criminals.(NAN)