A serving permanent secretary in the Bayelsa State Civil Service,
Dr. Wisdom Sawyer yesterday faulted the claims by the State Police
Command that he was arrested over an alleged attempt to buy a new born
baby for the sum of N200,000, Leadership reports.
Sawyer, who is also the owner of the Survival Hospital located at
Igbogene community of Yenagoa LGA of the state was at the weekend
reportedly arrested by a strike team of command over alleged attempts to
make the illegal purchase. He was reportedly arrested following a
complaint from the mother of the baby.
However, Sawyer, in a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa, said
though the mother of the new born baby was a patient in his hospital and
was delivered of a baby, and that the claims that the baby was offered
for sale was untrue.
According to him, the 24 year old mother, Nnenna Nwachukwu, who is a
commercial sex worker, had approached him in November 2015 to abort an
eight month old pregnancy but he declined.
He advised her to bear the child and put it up for adoption rather
than go through with an abortion. He displayed documents showing that
both agreed to give up the child for adoption.
Sawyer said he was surprised when he was visited by the police and
rights activists, FIDA alleging his involvement in child racketeering
scam.
He said: ‘‘The document was an undertaking by the patient
Nnnena Nwachukwi to transfer the baby to government since she cannot
care for the baby and not a document for sale of baby as alleged."
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