Men of the Nigeria Police Force inline with the zeal of the Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo to wipe the state off apparent criminal fetish practice of Okite and the activities of some Ezenwanyi largely believed to be responsible for cases of missing children, have arrested a medical doctor alongside his gang of child stealing syndicate and rescued over 10 missing babies looking already malnourished in captivity at Onitsha area of the state. 

The Police authority described the arrested  medical doctor as fake but the suspect alongside others were apparently not paraded for further independent investigations.

The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Ikioye Orutugu in a statement on Monday, called on all parents looking for their missing babies to come to the Police Command Headquarters in Awka for  identification if any of the rescued babies is theirs.

The Commissioner said that: “I am pleased to address you and Ndi Anambra today on yet another breakthrough on our commitment to protecting vulnerable children and combating human trafficking in the State.

Police Operatives attached to 3-3 divisional Headquarters on an intelligent-led information investigation on 15 February 2025 arrested one Mr Odinakachukwu Okorie ‘Male’, Ifunanya Ogbonna ‘Female’ and a fake medical doctor Mr Daniel Ikebuilo ‘Male’ and rescued ten (10) looking malnourished Children in an apartment in Inland-town Onitsha.

The Divisional Police Headquarters have been monitoring one of the alleged suspects Odinakachukwu in the area on the receipt of a report on 28 July 2024 about a missing 6-year-old boy in the neighbourhood.

The Operatives having enough evidence quickly arrested Odinakachukwu Okorie on the receipt of the second complaint on 13 February 2025 of a missing 5-year-old girl in the same area.

During interrogation, the suspect mentioned Ifunanya as part of the child stealing syndicate.

Further revelation led to the rescue of both children earlier reported missing and the arrest of Mr Daniel Ikebuilo (a Fake Doctor).

Before, Odinakachukwu and Ifunaya confessed to have perfected their plans to flee with the 5-year-old girl to Abuja.

Ifunanya also confessed to having sold the Child One million Naria (₦1,000,000) to Mr Daniel.

The Police still acting on information gathered, further rescued eight other children in an apartment in Inland town, Onitsha.

To this end, the Command sought the assistance of the Anambra State Government through the Ministry of Women’s Affairs for custody, medical attention, and care to help the children recover from the ordeal.

This achievement highlights the importance of community-police collaboration and intelligence gathering in combating child trafficking.

Lastly, the Command calls on anyone looking for his or her child to come to Anambra State Police Command for necessary action and possible reunion to their parents”, the Commissioner of Police, Ikioye Orutugu stated.

We had reported that the Monarch in Delta State, His Royal Highness, Epiphany Azinge, the Asagba of Asaba has banned a particular group of female spiritual native doctors known as Ezenwanyi from Asaba, the Delta State capital following the kidnapping and subsequent killing of Anambra State lawmaker, Justice Chukwunenye Azuka whose suspected killers’ kingpin was traced to a shrine in Delta State.

We had previously reported that the New Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Ikioye Orutugu visited the scene of crime to condole with the family of 3 siblings that were killed and kept inside the fridge at Nnewichi in Nnewi area of Anambra State while their mother was away for work at Ihiala, this as the State Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo with the Deputy Governor, Gilbert Onyekachukwu Ibezim being the Operational Commander always leading mostly indigenous team of special security operatives known as Agunechemba to invade and arrest Babalawos or Spiritual native doctors under the practice of Okite, a claimed spiritual practice of printing banknotes which investigations have since unraveled to be false; most especially as wrongly propagated by Nigeria movie industry; Nollywood which human beings are seen in some of their movies to be vomiting banknotes as a sign of money ritual, although, investigations have shown that there is no spiritual or ritual process that print banknotes but what criminally minded Babalawos or Spiritual native doctors do, is to prepare a charm known often in Igboland as Okite to enable the applicants including traders with legitimate businesses to be able to start committing more crimes like internet frauds or Yahoo yahoo, selling fake products, cheating customers, kidnapping, armed robbery, among other numerous inhuma crimes that makes the applicants to get rich quickly.

We had reported that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB lawyer, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor has called out Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo over the arrest and detention of a well known native doctor always on social media, Chidozie Nwangwu aka ‘Akwa Okuko Tiwara Aki, accusing the governor of violating the rights to religious practice of the suspect as guaranteed by Nigeria Constitution, this, as Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo goes harder on Babalawos, witch or spiritual native doctors fuelling insecurity in the state most especially those under the religious practice of Okite or Ezenwanyi that are widely believed to be responsible for the encouragement of people into kidnapping, organs harvesting, money rituals specifically rampant cases of stolen babies and boyfriends killing girlfriends for money ritual purposes: with investigation indicating that some dangerous crimes in Anambra are committed by Teenagers, Minors or Underaged children often misled and manipulated into the inhuman crimes by elderly ones, forcing the Anambra State Government to enact a new law that is tagged Homeland Security Law 2025 that came into effect on January 17, 2025 which banned anyone from advertising or showcasing on social media or any public place his or her supernatural powers to make people rich without any lawful means of legitimate business, forbids any spiritual native doctor from using their powers to perfect magical bullets proof for people to commit crime in the state and strictly stipulated 25 years imprisonment with no option of fine for any spiritual native doctor that requires human parts or blood to administer charms or protection to anybody in the state.

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