By Ugochukwu Alaribe

ABA—The Police in Abia State have arrested four persons suspected to be members of a child trafficking syndicate operating in the South-East zone of the country.

Also arrested were four suspected kidnappers, who have been terrorizing the residents of Aba and environs.

Vanguard gathered that the suspects, Chidubem Nwachukwu, Florence Nwokocha, Onyekwere Okeiyi and Chukwunonye Emerenini were arrested following a tip-off by one of their victims, who was lured to Umuahia by one of the suspects she met at a motor park in Aba.

Spokesman of Abia State Police Command, DSP Ezekiel Onyeke, told Vanguard that one of the suspects, Chidubem Nwachukwu met a victim at a motor park in Aba with her two children begging for alms and promised to marry her and take care of her children, aged two years and six months, respectively.

The victim later followed Nwachukwu to Umuahia where he took her to a beauty salon in Umuahia to fix her hair, but deceived her and stole her children who were later rescued at Umudem, Ikeduru council area of Imo State.