A
woman simply identified as Victoria, was on Sunday September 27tth, arrested by
police in Lagos 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 commissioner.
According
to reports, Victoria who is a wife and mother of two is an acquaintance of the
Uches and had asked that they "lend" her their twins so she could
feature them in a movie. Unknown to the Uches, Victoria wanted to use their
twins to extort money from the police chief who is the father of her ex
lover.
Mrs Uche and Victoria
arrived at the ex police chief's house at College Road Estate in Lagos.
The man was so excited to see his "grandchildren" but when Victoria
could not correctly state the sex of the babies, he became suspicious. Mrs Uche
who also suspected foul play immediately owned up that they were her babies and
provided facts regarding their age and when they were born
“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.
When interrogated,
the suspect said she wanted to use the twins to get money from the retired
officer for her children’s school fees.
“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,” she said.
Contacted, the
command spokesman, Joseph Offor, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP),
confirmed the woman’s arrest.
