Woman buys baby from Nollywood actor to replace sick son

Posted by Anurika Onyelemelamin Crime |

The secret of the selling of Tochukwu was later revealed by Jerry, Kanayo’s friend in Lagos, who told Ugo that her lover sold their baby.
Ugo went to Ikotun Police Station to report and Kanayo was picked

Detectives attached to the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a housewife who bought a baby boy for N650,000 to replace her imbecile son.
The suspect, Cecilia Nwantu, said she bought the two-year-old baby from his father, one Kanayo Awurum, a Nollywood actor, in Owerri, Imo State.
Nwantu, a mother of two girls and the 10-year-old imbecile boy, said she didn’t want her husband’s family name and lineage to die with him.
According to her, she took the decision to buy a son, whom she named Tochukwu, without the knowledge of her husband.
Tochukwu’s biological mother, Kelechi Ugo, 28, said the name she gave her son was Chukwunonyelum Samuel.
Ugo, who is already expecting a second baby for Kanayo, her boyfriend, denied knowing he wanted to sell the baby.
She said: “He told me that our son would be staying with his sister who lives in Port Harcourt.
“I do not know any of his relations.
“He said that since he is a movie star, the child would hamper our movement.
“He insisted we drop the baby with his sister.
“I released my baby to Emmanuel Obi, who is a friend to Kanayo.
“I never knew they had arranged to sell my baby.
“Kanayo introduced to Mrs. Obi as his sister-in-law.
“He said that his sister sent Mrs. Obi to bring the baby.”
Kanayo and Ugo met in secondary school.
According to Ugo, Kanayo promised to marry her, but disappeared after she got pregnant.
She said her brother paid the hospital bill when she delivered.
Ugo and Kanayo later reconnected and moved to Lagos.
After a while, Kanayo said he was going to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to collect their son from his sister.
He later called that he was involved in a motor accident and that the baby died.
The secret of the selling of Tochukwu was later revealed by Jerry, Kanayo’s friend in Lagos, who told Ugo that her lover sold their baby.
Ugo went to Ikotun Police Station to report and Kanayo was picked.
Kanayo said he had been planning to sell the baby since two months.
He said: “But I lied to her that I want to take the baby to my sister in Port Harcourt.
“Three women came to see me.
“I introduced one of them as the person my sister sent to bring the baby.
“I told them to pay me N500,000 but they gave me only N300,000.”
Speaking further, Nwantu explained that she gave birth to a healthy baby boy, but the child later had a convulsion, which turned him to an imbecile.
“I wanted the baby boy I bought to bear the name of my husband’s family,” said Nwantu.
Nwantu said she and her husband had earlier discussed about adopting a baby boy, but not to buy.
She said they had even visited a motherless babies home, but her husband suddenly fell sick, with the illness resulting to paralysis.
The woman, a civil servant, said: “My husband was not aware of the new development of buying a son.
“My husband has been on the sick bed for three months now.
“The baby was sold for N650,000, but N450,000 was all I had in my account.
“I collected a loan of N200,000.
“When they gave me the baby, I quickly put him in nursery school.
“I named him Tochukwu, meaning: Praise God.”
Recalling steps she took before she got Tochukwu, Nwantu said she went to Mother of Christ in Enugu, but was told there was no provision for adoption.
An official there however linked her to a medical doctor.
The doctor linked her to one Mrs. Nkechi Obi.
On March 30, 2015, Obi called her that a baby boy was available.
She said: “Obi asked me to wait for her at Owerri. She came with two other men; the father of the baby and her brother, Emmanuel Obi.”
Gladys Nwobodo, sister-in-law to Nwantu, was arrested for going with Nwantu to collect Tochukwu.
Nwobodo said:  “My brother’s son is not normal. He’s an imbecile. I thought before one adopts a child, the person would need to pay some money. It’s now police are telling us that we committed a crime.”
Obi, an auxiliary nurse in St. Joseph Hospital, Port Harcourt, said it was the first time she would be selling a baby.
Obi said the father of the baby, Kanayo, told her that selling his son wouldn’t be a problem.
He said he needed money to solve some pressing problems.
She said: “We saw Kanayo’s wife with the baby. She handed over the baby to Kanayo and left. Kanayo handed over the boy to the buyer, including the baby’s clothes. I asked the woman to bring N650,000. After that, Kanayo collected N450,000 and signed for it. I collected N100,000.”