A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt,Rivers State has convicted and sentenced one LOIS CHIKANELE IWUCHUKEU OBAZI who faked her name to be PRECIOUS OBASI to ten years imprisonment for child Trafficking. The incident took place in 2018 at Igwuruta Community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Chief Magistrate, FELICITAS AMANZIE while delivering her judgment,sentenced the woman to three years on count one and seven years on count two of the charges which said will run concurrently, stating that she actually bought the three babies which she claimed she delivered in two different days in a maternity home at Igwuruta with the sum of nine hundred thousand naira.
The forty-seven year old woman had in 2018 after she was arrested in a hotel within Stadium road, Elekohia in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of the state by men of Nigeria Police told the police which was also her testimonies before the court that she delived the triplets in two different days.
But the Chief Magistrate ruled that it was impossible for the forty-seven year old woman to have left Abroad to deliver her triplets in Nigeria and to nurse them in a hotel as she claimed, saying that the Prosecutions proved count and two in the case beyond reasonable doubt but could not proved count three which is unlawful taking away of the children from the parents.
Our Correspondent reports that Chief Magistrate, AMANZIE in her ruling also described LOIS CHIKANELE IWUCHUKEU OBAZ who faked her name to PRECIOUS OBASI as a pathological lair that deserves no mercy and thereby sentenced her to ten years just as she ordered that the convict should remain in Police Custody pending when Nigeria Correctional Service will be open for all inmates.
Speaking to newsmen outside the courtroom, CHRIS NWADIGO who is counsel to the convicted woman said he will appeal the Judgment of the court, describing the judgment as declaration full of emotion and sentiments.
On her part, the immediate past Chairperson of the International Federation of Female Lawyers ANTONIA OSADEME who spoke on behalf of the FIDA as part of Prosecution welcomed the judgment which she said will serve as a lesson to other women who are in habit of buying and selling babies.
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