The Nollywood actor Kanayo Awurum, who allegedly sold his son for N350,000, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates Court.
Kanayo Awurum
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.
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.
However, the mother of the boy, Miss Kelechi, who is also pregnant
with a second child by Awurun, said she 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.
Awurum, after his arrest, said he sold his son because he had pressing financial problems.
Obi, the second accused, said she bought the boy so she can have a male child to inherit her husband’s property.
The accused pleaded not guilty. The case was adjourned to August 31, 2015.
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