The Imo State Police Command on Tuesday arrested a 55-year-old woman, Mrs.Chinyere Ohanyere, popularly known as Madam Chichi, for allegedly buying a set of twins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a report monitored on line by Trumpeta<\/em>, Ohanyere was arrested at Graceland Estate, Owerri following a tip-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The suspect who reports say is a native of Oguta Local Government Area, allegedly pretended to have given birth to the twins on September 3 at Irete in Owerri West LGA of Imo State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Continuing, the source further said the suspect was apprehended alongside an alleged accomplice, Adaeze Ohanyere and one other person, while the twins, a boy and girl were recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe operatives of the command got a tip-off, stormed her house and arrested them. She claimed she gave birth to the twins on September 3 at Irete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut when she was subjected to medical examination, it was discovered that she wasn\u2019t delivered of the twins. She bought the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The children had been taken to an orphanage for proper care while the police are on the trail of the kids\u2019 seller, according to the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Michael Abattam, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The case has been referred to the Magistrate Court of Imo State where the accused is standing trial for alleged child trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The case has been adjourned to 6 and 7 October 2021 at Magistrate Court 3 in Owerri for continuation of the trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Imo State Police Command on Tuesday arrested a 55-year-old woman, Mrs.Chinyere Ohanyere, popularly known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE.jpg",1095,821,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE-1024x768.jpg",640,480,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE.jpg",1095,821,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE.jpg",1095,821,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE.jpg",1024,768,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE.jpg",507,380,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE.jpg",267,200,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/POLICE.jpg",50,37,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33810,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33809\/revisions\/33810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}