The Nollywood actor Kanayo Awurum, who allegedly sold his son for N350,000 has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates Court.
Awurum was arraigned on a two-count charge of human
trafficking. Special Anti-Robbery Squad detectives led by Inspector
Ayebo Samuel, arrested Awurum, following a compliant by his lover that
he sold their 2-year-old son, Chukwunoyerem, to a woman in the guise of
taking care of the boy
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The police arraigned Awurum and Nkechi Obi, the woman who
allegedly bought the boy, before Ipaye Nwachukwu of the Ikeja
Magistrates court on June 29.
The count reads: “That you Kanayo Awurum and Nkechi Obi and others now at large sometime in February 2015, at about 1.30pm, between Orlu, Imo state and Lagos State, within the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit; human trafficking, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 409 of the criminal law of Lagos State Nigeria, 2011. “
Count II reads: “That you Kanayo Awurum and Nkechi Obi and others at large on the same date,time and place in the afore-mentioned magisterial district, did sell one Chukwunoyerem Samuel Awurum, aged two years, for the sum of three hundred thousand naira (N300,000), and therefore committed an offence punishable under section 274(1) of the criminal law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.”
The count reads: “That you Kanayo Awurum and Nkechi Obi and others now at large sometime in February 2015, at about 1.30pm, between Orlu, Imo state and Lagos State, within the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit; human trafficking, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 409 of the criminal law of Lagos State Nigeria, 2011. “
Count II reads: “That you Kanayo Awurum and Nkechi Obi and others at large on the same date,time and place in the afore-mentioned magisterial district, did sell one Chukwunoyerem Samuel Awurum, aged two years, for the sum of three hundred thousand naira (N300,000), and therefore committed an offence punishable under section 274(1) of the criminal law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.”
However, the mother of the boy, Miss Kelechi, who is also
pregnant with a second child by Awurun, said she wants justice to be
served.
“I don’t care if he goes to jail. He deserves it. What he did was bad. Though I am pregnant with his second child, I don’t want anything to do with him again. He should face justice. I will train the children alone. . My God will see me through,” she said.
“I don’t care if he goes to jail. He deserves it. What he did was bad. Though I am pregnant with his second child, I don’t want anything to do with him again. He should face justice. I will train the children alone. . My God will see me through,” she said.
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