The police are also on the trail of the main suspect, one Emeka Precious Chinyere, who, according to police sources, had been linked to many child trafficking offences uncovered by embassies of foreign countries in Nigeria.
It will be recalled that the police at SFU had about two years ago failed to track down a runaway doctor, after a DNA test on a woman, Esther Soyebo, who attempted to secure an American visa for her baby at the embassy, indicated that she was not the biological mother of the subject.
Soyebo could not locate the address of the hospital, claiming that she got there in the night and left in the morning, thereby preventing the police from apprehending the suspect.
A nurse and a supposedly pregnant woman, who was later medically tested and found not to be pregnant, have been arrested in connection with the latest discovery by the police.
Crime Reports gathered that the runaway suspect escaped arrest by policemen, who stormed her Port Harcourt home, where ‘pregnant women’ were delivered of their babies, after gun-wielding policemen from the Special Protection Unit shielded her and prevented policemen from SFU and Rivers State Police Command from gaining access to her.
A source at the Rivers State Police Command informed Crime Reports that the runaway woman had been on the wanted list of the police for many “miracle children” investigations.
It was gathered that the discovery followed a petition to the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Special Fraud Unit by the United States of America Consulate to investigate a Nigerian-American, who applied for an American passport for her baby.
According to the US Consulate “one Christiana Ogeyi Omagu, a female Nigerian-American citizen, with Nigerian Passport AO49173747 and US passport 458926040 appeared at the consulate in pursuance of a US passport for a male child she allegedly gave birth to at God’s Gift Clinic and Maternity in Elelenwa, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.”
It was gathered that the DNA paternity and maternity test results indicated that the applicant and her alleged husband Donald Omagu, also the alleged father of the baby were not the biological parents of the subject.
A nurse Peace Effiong,who was arrested at the hospital, situated at 16, School Road Elelenmo Port Harcourt, confessed to the police that no child delivery had ever taken place at the hospital since she joined some months back. She informed the police that pregnant women who were due for delivery were usually taken to the doctor’s home for ‘proper delivery.’
The Nigerian -American applicant in her statement with the police, admitted to have paid ₦2.5 million to the runaway doctor , who was also said to be a very popular wife of a General Overseer of a big church in Elelenwo before she got pregnant and eventually put to bed at her hospital.
The commissioner of police, Tunde Ogunsakin assured that the police in the state would get to the root of the whole incident.
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