•’She told us she wanted to put them on a film’
The police have arrested a woman for allegedly attempting to use the four-month old twins of Mrs Ruth Uche, whose husband fled after she gave birth to them, to defraud a retired police chief.
The woman was caught at College Road Estate, when she took the babies to the retired police officer’s house, claiming that they were his grandchildren.
It was learnt that the suspect, a mother of two, identified as Victoria, was introduced to the Uches by a neighbour.
She was said to have told the twins parents that she wanted the babies to appear in a film.
Although Mrs Uche’s husband, Emeka was said to have initially declined, he later conceded on the condition that his wife must go with the children.
Rather than taking them to location, she was said to have carried the babies to the house of the wealthy man, who was said to be happy to see his ‘grandchildren’.
But, the suspect could not say the sex and age of the babies when she was asked.
The suspect, had earlier taken the twins’pictures and sent to the man, claiming that they were boys and two months old.
When the retired officer saw the babies, he realised that they were a boy and a girl, and looked much older than two months.
It was then Mrs Uche suspected something was amiss and told the man the age and sex of her babies.
“I did not understand what was going on. I do not even know the place we went to. She has been pleading with us that she wanted to use the twins (youngest set) in a film.
“My husband initially denied but later since she said it was to act film; I begged my husband and he agreed on the condition that I go with the woman.
“So, around 11:30am on Sunday, we all left the house and came to Agege. She took us to one big man’s house, I do not know the place and she told me to sit down that it is she and the kids that will act the film.
“But when I sat down, I heard the man asking her whether my children are two boys and how old they are.
“She said two months and that they are boys but I told the man that they are a boy and a girl, and that they are four months old.
“The man asked whose children they were and I told him they are my children and that the woman said she wanted to act film with them.
“That was when the man started shouting and saying that she told him that my children are his grandchildren. That she has sent their picture before and that she told him his son impregnated her before travelling abroad.
“The man now said that we were in it together and that I knew about it. I told him I do not know anything that the only thing she told us was that she wanted to act film with my babies.
“Before she did not want to talk, but when people threatened her, she now told them that I am innocent. That she wanted to get money from the man. That woman is a criminal,” Mrs Uche said.
The suspect said she wanted to use the twins to get money from the retired officer for her children’s school fees.
She claimed that she did not plan to sell them; nor was she planning to steal them from their parents.
“Please I am sorry, have mercy on me. I am a poor widow and I have two children. I begged their parents that I wanted to act film with the twins and the twins’ father told his wife to follow me.
“I wanted to use them to collect money from the man because I used to date his son after I lost my husband.
“Before he travelled abroad last year, I got pregnant for him but I aborted the baby. So, because I needed money, I decided to use the twins and show his father so that I can get money from him and pay my children’s school fees.
“I did not plan to sell them and I did not know that things will turn out this way,” cried Victoria.
Contacted, the command spokesman, Joseph Offor, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirmed the woman’s arrest.
He said the twins’ mother would have been detained too but for the children.
Offor said investigations were ongoing to be sure the parents did not conspire with the suspect.
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