Chinenye Eze, a 25-year-old woman who allegedly sold five of her biological children, has disappeared without trace after a frantic but futile attempt you recover her last child.
For Chinenye, who hails from Ogwu in Enugu State, the bubble burst when her close friend simply identified as Patience, sensationally revealed how she had serially traded off her babies a few months after birth.
Patience, a resident of Jaji Street, Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja, had narrated how Chinenye usually sold her babies at age three to four months of delivery, and had consistently sold five of her children over the years, including male and female.
She disclosed that Chinenye, also known as Elizabeth, had once requested that she named her price to conceal the secret, but she said being a mother, she was not unconscionable to continue aiding her in the ignoble trade by keeping sealed lips.
Patience said she decided to spill the beans after another baby deal struck by her friend on June 26, 2020 went awry.
In the botched deal, Chinenye had through the Social Welfare Department of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and an orphanage in Abuja, given out her last child, a male named Destiny, for the sum of N350, 000 and allegedly turned around to blackmail those involved in the process in an attempt to extort more money.
However, her resort to extortion, which she allegedly perpetrated in connivance with suspected members of a syndicate, backfired in the case of her last baby and triggered an alarm.
In the course of trading off five-month-old baby Destiny, Chinenye had contacted an orphanage in Kubwa, Abuja to express her intention and was reportedly linked to officials of the Social Welfare Department of the FCTA, who took her before a Family Court to perfect the process.
In an affidavit dated June 26, 2020 and sworn to at the Family Court of the FCT sitting at Wuse Zone 11, Abuja, Chinenye affirmed that she was the biological mother of the baby boy whom she said, was born on February 5, 2020.
She indicated her willingness to give up the baby to the FCTA for adoption by a successful applicant on grounds that the man responsible for her pregnancy had abandoned her and the baby and fled to an unknown destination.
“I want to forge ahead with my life and I don’t have any means of taking good care of the baby, hence I decided to give up the baby to the government and undertake never to come for the baby again as long as I am alive”, she averred.
Interestingly, earlier in a handwritten agreement with an orphanage dated June 24, 2020, Chinenye, had allegedly demanded a sum of N350, 000 in exchange for baby Destiny.
Part of the document read: “I got impregnated by a man named Patrick; he lives in Minna. The man said he did not want the baby and gave me N15, 000 to go away, that he didn’t want the baby.
“I have given out my first baby before and this one, I can’t take care of the boy so I want to give it out to anybody that will offer me N350, 000 to take care of myself. I will never come back to you again; I need help”.
However, after handing over baby Destiny to officials of the FCTA Social Welfare Department and the orphanage at the Family Court in Wuse Zone 11, Abuja on Friday, June 26, 2020, Chinenye allegedly returned to the orphanage with a shocker.
She allegedly requested to be given more money or be handed her baby which, Scudnews learnt, had already been processed for an interested foster parents by the FCTA Social Welfare Department.
Angered by the volte-face, her friend, Patience, raised the red flag on her unholy indulgence.
However, while Patience said Chinenye, who she alleged to be a commercial sex worker, had sold five of her biological children at infancy, the woman admitted to selling only two in a document in possession of Scudnews.
“I had given my first born out to one orphanage in Kubwa”, she admitted, but was silent on the amount the baby was sold. A source however alleged that the deal fetched her N.5million.
For over two months, Scudnews reporters went on a search of Chinenye unsuccessfully, but a few persons who knew her said she had left the neighbourhood and disappeared after the bubble burst. Her Friend, Patience, was also not found and her whereabouts unknown.
Patience, who hails from Akwa Ibom State, had shortly after blowing the lid, raised the alarm that her life was in danger.
“One Ibo guy told me that I should be very careful; that if I don’t take time, they are going to burn down the house we are living so that I and my baby will die.
“Now, I don’t sleep in my house; I sleep with one of my primary school classmates at Byazin, I am not safe”, she had lamented.
