Woman sells pregnant sister

Sister Sells Pregnant Sister For
N100K
A 23-year-old pregnant woman, Jennifer
Ogbonna, raised the emotion of people recently at
Zone 2, Police Headquarters, Abeokuta, Ogun
State, when she narrated how her sister tricked
her into slavery and sold her off with her 7-month
old pregnancy. She was then transported from
Aba to Abeokuta after a couple who allegedly
specialized in buying human beings from all
parts of the country paid N100,000 to her sister.
The lady who hails from Ebonyi State but lived
and worked in Aba narrated her ugly experiences
shortly after she was rescued by the Police. She
said:
“I was brought to Abeokuta by the woman’s
husband. I don’t know that they had already paid
money on my head. I only got to know in
Abeokuta when I overheard the woman and her
husband talking about child trafficking and I felt
bad. I decided not to eat any of their food. There
is one lady
in that building, they call her Adeola, she would
bring food for me and I would not touch it to the
extent that the woman’s husband pleaded with
me to eat and still I refused and said I am going
back to Aba where she brought me from.
When I said I was going to Aba, the man was
angry and said before he would allow me to go
back, I must pay back the N100,000 he paid my
sister for myself and my pregnancy and the
expenses he incurred so far on me. After that, his
wife took me to one shrine and asked me to swear
to an oath not to go back to Aba or tell anybody
what happened, that if I try to go back or tell
anybody, she will make me mad; she would make
me deaf and dumb.
But, I discussed my plan to escape with another
victim who I met there, she is Oluchi and she
said that if I try it I will become mad, but, I
insisted and I escaped. I ran away to the next
street. When I ran to the street,I met some people
and I narrated my experience to them. They
advised me to report to the Police, that was how
police got to know everything, she stated.
Division of labour
Investigations revealed that the notorious couple
who lives in Abeokuta where they operate their
illegal and nefarious business, usually travels to
many parts of the country in search of their
‘commodity’. It was further gathered that the
husband, identified as Ismail Yusuf, is in charge of
scouting for pregnant women as he reportedly
went as far as Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi and other
states in the Eastern part of the country.
The wife, Muyiba, was saddled with the task of
nurturing the pregnant women till they deliver of
their babies for onward sale.
Crime Guard learnt also that Muyiba who is
cooling her feet at the Police station after she was
arrested was reported to had come to Abeokuta
from Kwara State disguised like a herbalist and
rented an apartment at Adigbe where they use as
their operational base.
According to the findings, the husband, having
bought their preys (pregnant women), would
charm them on the spot and take them to their
operational base in Abeokuta where they would
nurture the victims and their pregnancies until
they give birth, which they allegedly usually sell
to couples that need children or for ritual
purposes.
It was also gathered that when these victims
were bought, the couple would force them to
swear to an oath not to escape. They would
charm them so that they would not escape from
them and people living around and security
agencies would not have any clues of what they
were doing in their den.
Suspect opens up
Recalling her journey in the human trafficking
business, 38-year-old Muyiba said, “ I came to
Abeokuta in January this year from Offa, Kwara
State. I used to sell baby clothes before my shop
got burnt during the crisis between Offa and Erin-
Ile. I know how to prepare herbs for diabetic
patients. I am a trado-medical doctor, I registered
in Kwara State but not in Ogun State. I have
treated three patients in Abeokuta since I have
been here.”
When asked what she was doing with the
pregnant women she camped in her house,
Muyiba claimed that “ it was their husbands that
brought them to my place, to keep them in my
place. I knew them through one Joy.
Arrest
How were you arrested, she said “ It all happened
when I saw police on Wednesday night banging
that we should open the door. They came to
arrest all of us. I thought my husband has run
away because I was asleep when the police came.
My husband is Ismail Yusuf, our children are in
Kwara State. The police also arrested Muyiba’s
younger sister —Seun and when she was asked
her role in the incident, she passed the ball to her
elder sister.
According to her , I was staying with her. I just
graduated last year from School of Health in Ilorin,
Kwara state. I came to Abeokuta last month. I
don’t have anything to say, she (Muyinba) is the
one that can say anything about it.