The mother had happily taken her baby to the hospital last July to be immunised during the monthly routine exercise when the fake nurse approached her and volunteered to help, only to disappear with the baby afterwards.
It was gathered that while waiting for her turn, which took time due to the large turn out, the fake nurse smartly played on the intelligence of the woman by requesting to help her out.
After waiting for a long time, the mother decided to ask for her baby from the nurses working in the hospital who were familiar to her. It was then that it dawned on her that an evil person had played a fast one on her.
‘The woman promptly raised an alarm which attracted sympathisers,’ a source said.
The police was contacted and went on the trail of the baby thief, eventually arresting her last Wednesday – two months after.
The Moment On Sunday learnt that police detective investigating the incidence recovered the stolen baby from a woman who allegedly bought it for N300,000 ($1,800). The police are still maintaining sealed lips on the identity of the culprits so as not to jeopardise investigations.
Contacted for comments on the development, Ebere Amaraizu, the Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), declined to reveal the identity of the fake nurse and the woman to whom she bought the baby on the grounds that he was not in the office.
Enugu has in recent times been a favourite ground for the illegal sale of babies by ‘merchants’ who habour young girls with unwanted pregnancy, care for them and thereafter sell off the babies to their clients while the mother is rewarded with only a paltry sum.
However, stealing from nursing mothers at immunisation centres is a new trend
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