A 19-year old girl, Nsidebe Sunday Effiong, of Ikot Abasi Idem Village, Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area, is currently cooling her heels at the Ikot Akpan Abia headquarters of the Akwa Ibom state police command for strangling to death her three weeks old baby and dumping her into a pit toilet. Nsidebe was among those paraded by the command last week in the present effort of the command to rid the state of criminal activities.
Nsidebe Effiong, told reporters at the premises of the police command that she dropped out of school in her Junior Secondary three, when she first had her first baby. She said hardship drove her into taking such a drastic action as it was becoming extremely impossible for her to take care of the baby all by herself. She said the man who was responsible for making her pregnant, a drinking salon operator in Ibesikpo had denied responsibility and abandoned her to her fate.
She narrated how she could not stand the rigours of taking care of herself and the baby, when her mother refused to accept them back to her house. She said she first had a baby previously, adding that her first baby was in the care of her mother. She said her situation of not getting proper care forced her to rent her own room, where all sorts of men come to have sex with her after, which she was paid some stipends.
She further informed crime reporters that she decided to take the life of the baby one morning, when she could no longer bear the hardship. She narrated how she wrapped a towel round the soft neck of the crying baby and snuffed life out of her. To conceal her act, she said she further wrapped her all over and sneaked into the pit toilet in the compound, where she quietly threw the dead baby.
In another development, the Akwa Ibom state police command also paraded three men accused of conning innocent citizens of millions of naira posing as representatives of a firm of Marine Engineers and contractors to Exxon Mobil. The suspects paraded for the crime, David Peter John, Ekpo Udo alias Engr Kingsley and David Iwara and Godson Okedu, were said to have fraudulently duped one Fidelia Onyeachelem of the sum of one million naira under the guise of delivering ten trucks of premium motor spirit PMS to her.
Also paraded by the police include, two men arrested for impersonating police officers. One Bassey Eyong, was arrested for posing as a Deputy Superintendent of police. He was arrested with a fake plastic police ID card, while extorting money from unsuspecting members of the public. Another young man, Patience Effiong Idiong was also arrested at the plaza area of Uyo, extorting money from motorists while parading as a police constable.
In his press statement, the state commissioner of police, Mr. Solomon Arase, thanked members of the public for proffering information leading to the various breakthroughs so far recorded by his command. He said that security was the duty of all well meaning citizens, because the criminal operates among people. He enjoined members of the public to always report suspicious movements and persons to law enforcement agencies, promising to keep up the heat against criminalities in the state.
He promised that his command was committed to ensuring that the state remained free of criminal elements. He said that all those arrested would be prosecuted as soon as investigations into their crimes are fully completed.
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