18-year-old Missing Girl, Found With 5 Months Old Pregnancy In A Baby Factory
On Friday, the Imo State Police Command announced that it had located Amarachi Okechukwu Dioku, 18, who went missing in May from Umudurualaoka, Uba, Ifakala in the Mbaitoli L.g.a of Imo State, in a church-cum baby factory, where she was impregnated and her child was sold after being put to bed.
Hussaini Rabiu, the State Police Commissioner, revealed this while arraigning 47-year-old Ugochi Orisakwe, a suspected Evangelist of the Jesus Life Assembly, and four accomplices at the Police Headquarters in Owerri.
The culprits were apprehended at their church at School Garden, Uratta, Owerri North Local Government Area, Imo State, according to the police.
“We received information about one Amarachi Okechukwu Dioku, 18, of Umudurualaoka Uba Ifakala Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State, on September 8 at about 8:30 am,” the police said.
“She was earlier reported missing in May by her parents. She was sighted in the premises of a church located in an isolated area along MCC/Uratta road in Owerri North LGA of Imo State.
“The Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Rabiu Hussaini, immediately dispatched the command’s anti-kidnapping unit, who mobilized, stormed, and condoned the church— JESUS LIFE ASSEMBLY.
“The prime suspect and resident Evangelist of the church, Evangelist Ugochi Orisakwe, aged 47, along with his gang members, Chidi Orisakwe, 34; Pauline Nwagbunwanne, 42; Elizabeth Uzoma, 61, and Chibueze Joy, 31, were all arrested and taken to the station.
“The victim, Miss Amarachi Okechukwu Dioku was rescued unhurt with five-month-old pregnancy.
“She was immediately taken to a government hospital for treatment. She was later reunited with her parents amidst jubilation.
“On interrogation, Evangelist Ugochi Orisakwe confessed to having been using the church as a place where young girls are kept, impregnated and after delivery, the girls are paid off and their babies sold to rich and childless clients.
“Meanwhile, an investigation is ongoing and efforts are on to arrest other members of the syndicate who are on the run.”
