The wife of the general overseer of a popular
pentecostal church (name withheld) in Port Harcourt, Rivers state has
been declared wanted by the Special Fraud Unit, Milverton, Ikoyi and
Rivers state police command for running one of the biggest baby factory
in Nigeria.
The suspect identified as Emeka Precious
Chinyere, specialize in selling babies to desperate women who had waited
for years without bearing children from all parts of the world for an
outrageous amount between N 2.5 million and N6 million at God’ s Gift
Clinic and Maternity home located at 16, School Road , Elelenwo area in
Port Harcourt
The amount paid for each pregnancy varies in
each cases according to the age of the individual and the period of
waiting for her concoction which would make their stomachs to start
protruding, until the day of delivery which remains a mystery still yet
to be solved by the police.
reports says that
This illicit business
has reportedly been going at God’ s Gift Clinic and Maternity home
located at number 16 School Road , Elelenmo area of Port Harcourt ,
Rivers State, for years until the bubble burst, following a petition to
the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Police Special Fraud Unit,
by the United States of America Consulate, to investigate an America
based- Nigerian woman who applied for American passport for her little
baby. The US-based Nigerian identified as Christiana Ogeyi Omagu, with
Nigerian passport number AO49173747 and US passport 458926040 ,
according to the US Consulate, appeared at the consulate in pursuance of
a US passport for a male child she claimed to have delivered at God’ s
Gift Clinic and Maternity , Port Harcourt , Rivers State.
However, when a DNA
paternity and maternity test was conducted, the result according to the
embassy, indicated that the applicant and her husband, Donald Omagu ,
were not the biological parents of the baby.
In spite of the
result, the embassy said Mrs Omagu insisted that a certain doctor she
identified as Chinyere Precious, took her delivery at God’ s Gift Clinic
and Maternity in Rivers State, hence, the petition to ascertain her
claim.
During preliminary
investigation, the Police Special Fraud Unit reportedly discovered that
several embassies had petitioned them over similar cases, with the
mention of the General Overseer’s wife as the doctor that delivered them
of their ‘miracle babies’
It would be recalled
that a similar instance was that of one Esther Soyebo, who , two years
ago, was arrested following a petition from the US embassy over same
reason. During interrogation, the woman told journalists that she was
introduced to Pastor Chinyere by a friend in the USA who claimed to have
had her three children miraculously from her. The suspect also stated
that she paid N2.5 million for the prepared concoction she took , after
which her stomach began to bulge . But efforts by operatives to locate
the maternity home were futile as the woman claimed not to know the
exact location of the centre. She claimed that she was taken there at
night and that she left very early the next morning.
But a combined team
of operatives from the Unit and those of the Rivers state Police command
stormed the maternity home recently where a near gun battle was
reportedly averted, following resistance from armed policemen from the
Special Protecting Unit , who blocked access to her.
However, a nurse
identified as Peace Effiong and a supposed expectant mother were
arrested at the maternity home in Rivers state and brought to SFU,
Lagos.
In her statement to
the Police, the arrested nurse revealed that no child had ever been
delivered in the maternity since she was employed.
According to her: “ I
was employed just six months ago and I have never witnessed any child
birth there. Anytime a pregnant women is due for delivery, she is
usually taken to Dr Chinyere’s home at Harvest Assembly Avenue, Stallion
Road, Elelenwo. That is all I can say “I paid N2.5 million for pregnancy and delivery
On the part of the
America- based Nigerian suspect, she disclosed in her statement that she
paid N 2.5 million to the fleeing doctor before she got pregnant..
She explained that
she came to Nigeria in February last year , after she was introduced to
Dr Chinyere. “ One month later, the doctor said I was pregnant and I
went back to my base in the USA , with the hope of delivering the baby
in one of the hospitals over there. But several medical tests carried
out in the United States indicated that I was not pregnant and I began
to doubt. Dr Chinyere who visited America at that time, assured I was
pregnant and advised me to come down to Nigeria to deliver the baby . By
February this year, she called and informed me to come down to Nigeria ,
that I was due. I was delivered of a baby boy on February 16, 2014, at
the maternity home”
But the result of the
DNA test by the embassy showed that neither she nor her husband were
biological parents of the supposed baby. Asked if the delivery was a
normal one or through caesarian , the suspect kept mute.
Another pregnant
woman , Victoria Acholonu , who was arrested at the maternity home, told
operatives that “ I paid N2.9 for the pregnancy. Dr. Chinyere called me
on the phone to inform that my delivery was due . That was why I came
to her hospital , only to be arrested. Again, when a text was conducted
to ascertain her true state, the result showed that she was not
pregnant, even with the evident bulging stomach.
Sounding frustrated,
Acholonu disclosed that she was not the only one that had fallen a
victim. “ I know some people who said they paid more that N2.5million.
Some claimed to have even paid N6 m , depending on their condition.
Information at the operatives disposal indicated that the wife of the general overseer had fled to the United States of America.
Police sources hinted
that several attempts to arrest her proved abortive as some eminent
Nigerians in key positions always intervened. Police sources said : “
the woman is very powerful , that is why she has managed to beat police
arrest. She has been very evasive to the police at PSFU despite the
numerous evidences against her. She was once arrested by the Police at
Elelenwo divisional police station , after one of her victims’ husband
became suspicious and invited the police , who invaded her home at the
point of delivery but she escaped justice after an unidentified ‘
powerful man from ‘ above intervened “
However the
Commissioner of Police, Rivers State , Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin has assured
his command would ensure the suspect is arrested. As first step, he said
the command would ascertain if the woman was a medical doctor.
No comments:
Post a Comment