Operatives of the Abia state Police have arrested Evangelist Goodluck Mark of the Church of Christ, Seventh Day, in Osaa-Ukwu area of the state for his alleged involvement in a child trafficking case.
Inside Sources gathered that Mark who is a dismissed police officer was assigned by the Ossa Ukwu community to hand over some arrested human traffickers and the N600,000 recovered from them to the police, but Mark rather allegedly diverted the money and allowed the suspects to escape.
A source in the community while narrating the incident said “Last month, a certain woman from my community here connived with one man who owns a maternity home here to sell her own baby for N600,000. But unfortunately they were caught by the youths/vigilante of the community. The vigilante decided that they should be handed over to the police as law demands. Mark, who we know as a police officer, was called upon to take the suspects to the police station and register the case. The money realized from the sale of the baby was dug up from the ground where they buried it and handed over to the officer as evidence. But instead of handing the suspects over to the police, Mark released the two men involved to run away and warned them never to return to the community. He also beat and threatened the child’s mother whom he also released. Some days later when the news of what happened got to the community, the police operatives were invited and they arrested him and took him to D7 in Umuahia.”
According to the source the Ossa Ukwu community was aware that the suspect was once dismissed from the police force, he was assigned by the community to handle the case when the news of his reinstatement back to the force broke out in the community.
Apostle Jasper Ohuoba a leader in the Church of Christ, Seventh Day, Osaa-Ukwu, where the accused worship while confirming the arrest said we were shocked to hear how he collected money and set the criminals free.
