The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested six persons involved in the selling and buying of two babies delivered at the Grace Maternity Home, Upper Sakponba area, Benin City, Edo State.
The suspects include Joy Ufunwen Enadeghe (principal suspect), three nurses of Grace Maternity Home and the babies’ mother and her boyfriend.
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The Edo State Commander of NAPTIP, Barr Nduka Nwanene, who disclosed this to our reporter, said before the arrest of the suspects, the babies’ mother and her boyfriend petitioned the agency that she met the principal suspect in 2020 when she was pregnant and that she took her to the Grace Maternity Home, but that after delivery, Joy and the Nurse Okogbuwa Tarah who delivered her of the babies forcefully took them from her and pushed her out at night.
