Anambra Community Disowns Woman Attempting to Sell Two Sons for N1.8m

The Ozubulu community in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State has disowned Chinyere Chukwu, who was arrested two weeks ago while attempting to sell two of her sons for N1.8 million

The mother of 11 children was taken into custody along with her 17-year-old daughter, Joy Chukwu, for their suspected collaboration in trying to sell the children.
Upon discovering Chukwu’s intentions, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare Ify Obinabo assumed the role of a potential buyer for the children

During interrogation following her arrest, Chinyere Chukwu claimed to be from Ozubulu and revealed that her husband had passed away after the birth of their first two children. She admitted to subsequently having children with different men and expressed her intention to sell two of them to provide for the others.

However, a group of individuals from Ozubulu, who visited the office of the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, firmly maintained that the woman was not a resident of their community.

The delegation, headed by the President General of the community, Chief Chris Ononuju, and Lady Ndupu Clara, stated that the suspect only lived in the community but was neither a native nor married to any member of the community.

Ononuju said: “We have done every investigation, and all the results say she is not from Ozubulu. She is not from Ozubulu, and she is not married in Ozubulu.

“The man she mentioned as her husband, whom she claimed has died, is still alive. He is our brother, and his wife died six or seven years ago. The man has not remarried anyone. She only lives in the man’s house as a tenant.

“This woman only lived in our community, and she is someone whose activities are not clear, and she has been written to and asked to leave the community before now. She came to the community with her husband and resided, but had differences with her husband, and the man left her, and she now claims the man had died.”

He said further: “We are embarrassed by this attitude of smearing the name of our community. We do not know her, and she is not married to us, and she knows that the children are not from the man she is claiming.”

He explained that the delegation chose to visit the commissioner’s office to address the misconceptions created by the accused.

Kanyi Daily recalls that the discovery of two bodies, allegedly murdered and left in the trunk of their Toyota Corolla along the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway near Tempo Mills, Umunya, Anambra State, had triggered panic among the residents and passers-by.