The Nigeria Police Force has invited Mr. Nkwuda Emmanuel, Head of Department, Child Development, Ebonyi State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, and Mrs. Nneka Akam, Officer-in-Charge, Legal, Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), for questioning over their alleged conspiracy, abduction, child trafficking, and unlawful detention.
The case involves Susannah Nwanneka Nweze, whose newborn baby boy was reportedly sold for N25million by some police officers in the Ebonyi State Police Command.
The family of Mr Nweze Philip Obasi of Umuobuna Etiti Uburu in the Ohaozara Local Government area, Ebonyi State, had filed a petition against four officers of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the state, over an alleged conspiracy, abduction, child trafficking, unlawful arrest, and compounding felony.
In the petition, the family accused SP Loveth Uche, officer in charge of the Juvenile and Women Centre (JWC), Ebonyi State Police Command with two Inspectors under her of conspiring to sell a baby boy born to Susannah Nwanneka Nweze, their daughter for N25 million.
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They claimed that she was abducted and taken to a police clinic where she gave birth to the baby boy. The family alleged that Uche and other officials sold the baby without their consent.
Subsequently, the NSCDC personnel arrested Nwanneka and detained for several weeks, with the O/C legal later allegedly changed the extrajudicial statement of Nwanneka.
But another police invitation was issued requesting the officials to be at Force Criminal Investigation Department Annex, Enugu tomorrow, August 1 for interrogations.
The invitation separately addressed to Commissioner Women Affairs, and Commandant NSCDC, was signed by DCP Ime Bassey Usanga, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DFA), for the Assistant Inspector General of Police FCID Annex Enugu.
In the letters with Ref Nos: CR:3000/X/FCID/ANX/ENS/TC/VOL.3/160 and CR:3000/X/FCID/ANX/ENS/TC/VOL 3/161, dated July 29, 2025, it noted that the authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the alleged crime.
Titled: “Police Invitation,” the letters partly read: “RE: case of conspiracy, abduction, child trafficking and unlawful detention.
“This office is investigating the afore-mentioned subject matter in which a personnel working under you (Commissioner of Women Affairs and Social Development), featured prominently.
“Given the foregoing and in furtherance of the investigation, you are hereby requested to warn and release Mr. Nkwuda Emmanuel HOD Child Development Department Abakaliki, Ebonyi State to interface with the undersigned on Friday 1st August, 2025 by 10:00am
“On arrival the O/C Team C of the formation shall be on ground to receive him accordingly,” it read.