The Delta State Police Command has arrested a woman who allegedly murdered her 10-month-old child, Prevail Jonathan; and a native doctor who was accused of killing an 8-year-old boy, Progress Ifeanyi.
Blessing Ibuku who is the mother of the deceased infant confessed that she threw her baby into the river on November 31, 2024.
Delta State Command, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi stated this at a press briefing in Asaba on Tuesday, disclosing that a case of a missing 10-month-old child named Prevail was reported to the police on December 4, 2024.
While at the station, alongside Blessing, the CP said Police received a call that a child was found floating at the Aviara community river.
He said that when the dead child was brought to the station, it was discovered that it was the body of the same missing child.
According to the police CP, the suspect confessed during investigation that she threw the baby away because her friends and other girls were making jest of her that the child did not have a father.
Similarly, a native of Owa-Alero (name withheld) reported that his 8-year old son, Progress Ifeanyi was missing and that the last they heard was that the boy went away with one of their customers named Destiny Lawrence who usually patronize their ship.
The complainant, said that on noticing that his son was missing, he approached Destiny to ask about the whereabouts of his son but he denied knowledge of his whereabouts.
However later that day, the corpse of Progress was found in an uncompleted building with some of his body parts missing.
Police subsequently arrested the suspect who later confessed during interrogation that one native doctor known as Jonah from Otolokpo community in Delta State contracted him to look for a small boy at a sum of N30,000.
Lawrence said lured the victim to where the native doctor was waiting, where he was later taken to an uncompleted building where he was murdered.
The CP said the two suspects were in custody while police have launched manhunt for the fleeing native doctor while also adding that investigation was ongoing on both cases.
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