A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar has sentenced two females to five years imprisonment for selling a one-year-old boy in Cross River State.
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The Guardian gathered that the suspects, 22-year-old Uduak Uwem Sunday and 18-year-old Blessing Etim Asuquo, were arrested by officials of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP) on April 18, this year.

Delivering judgment on the matter, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu sentenced the culprits to five years imprisonment respectively with a fine of N2 million.

A source from the agency, who pleaded anonymity, said Christian Samuel was stolen and sold to a buyer at Technical Round About along Murtala Muhammed Highway in Calabar for the sum of N150.000.

“The child is a baby boy, Christian Samuel. The suspects refused to mention the person they sold the child to and where the child was taken.”

They only revealed that they took the child to Technical Round About, along the highway and got the buyer who paid N150,000. I don’t know whether they took an oath that they will never reveal themselves, because all efforts, all pampering while they were in custody to get them to reveal their accomplice, didn’t yield any result.

“It was so pathetic watching the mother of the child crying yesterday at the court,” the source stated.
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