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22-yr-old hairstylist jailed for trafficking in twin

February 6, 2021 No Comments

A 22-year-old hairstylist, Joy Olaka-Wogu has been sentenced to four years in prison by a Port Harcourt, Rivers State Magistrate Court for stealing and trafficking in twin babies.

Olaka-Wogu was said to have stolen the babies from their parents in 2018.

She was sentenced to four years on each of the three counts of child trafficking, conspiracy and theft pressed against her.

The convict, who initially pleaded not guilty, later pleaded guilty to the charges, informing the court of her repentance and asked for forgiveness.

Delivering her judgment, the Chief Magistrate, Amaka Amanze, noted that available facts showed that the convict had been in the business of stealing and selling babies for a while adding that the sentence was to deter her from indulging in such a crime in the future.

Chief Magistrate Amanze adjourned the case till March 2, 2021 to hear the evidence of the second defendant who denied that she bought the twins from the convict.

Speaking to journalists after the judgment, the counsel for the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Esther Achor-Korienta, expressed satisfaction over the judgment, adding that the verdict would serve as a warning to those indulging in child trafficking.

Wonders they say will never cease to end, and this seems to be true as new dimension of events and things considered to be abnormal keeps happening in the world and even our immediate environ.

Cases of daughters bearing children for their fathers and claiming they love it this way have been reported, friends killing friends, family killing a member, women bearing another man’s child(ren) for their husbands, and ecetera, have been reported and witnessed by many.

In the case of twins, cases of make twins marrying female twins same day and in some cases give birth to twins on same day have been reported, but this is very much acceptable and god, as to when compared to that which happened here.

In a video released online, a man gets wedded to two twin sisters, on the excuse that the two cannot live without each other. The question now is, did he plan on marrying the two right from the very beginning? I would pick a no answer because the other who is pregnant seem like the one whom he actually wanted.

Or is it a case of the pregnant twin being more fertile than the other? Nobody knows. But whatever the case maybe, the twin seem to be naive about the fact that marriage is an upgrade from spinsterhood and their days as just twin sisters, and that bond they think they share will vanish with time.