This title child was used by her mother as a collateral just to borrow N100.Veronica Igwe is the mother of the child who has been reported to have offered her 4-year-old daughter, Uloma Igwe as collateral for N100 debt in Ebonyi State.
Cecilia Elom, the office in charge of Child Abuse and Maltreatment Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, said they received a call on Tuesday informing about the child. Officials of the ministry rushed to the CAS campus of Ebonyi State University Abakaliki where Veronica lives
“On reaching the residence, we saw little Uloma Igwe with another seven – year- old boy hawking. On interrogation, they confessed to having been lured into hawking by the creditor.
Uloma ’ s mother, Veronica, informed our officials that she did not even know the woman she gave her child to. She added that said she then suggested to her debtor that she could bring one of her children in exchange for the debt.
She maintained that she did not know the residence of the woman she handed her daughter to, but that the transaction took place at the rice mill where they do daily rice transactions.
Officials of the Ministry of Women Affairs invited Mrs. Josephine Nwali to the Office, from where she was handed over to the Ebonyi State Police Command for interrogation, ” Elom said.
The Ministry of Women Affairs has concluded arrangement to take little Uloma Igwe to the hospital for proper medical attention
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