Woman Arrested For Trying To Dupe Ex- Police Commissioner With A Set Of Twins

Police operatives attached to Pen Cinema police station in
Agege, Lagos, on Sunday arrested a woman for trying to use twins belonging to
Mrs. Ruth Uche for fraud. The woman was nabbed at College Road Estate, after
she took the four- month old babies to a retired police commissioner’s house,
claiming they were his grandchildren.

The Nation gathered that the suspect, a mother of two,
identified as Victoria, was introduced to the Uches by one of their neighbours.
She was said to have deceived the children’s parents that she wanted them to
appear in a film.

Although Ruth’s husband, Emeka Uche, was said to have
declined initially, he eventually consented to her request on the condition
that his wife must go along with the children.

But rather than taking them for the film shooting as
claimed, she reportedly carried them to the big man’s house, who was overjoyed
when he saw the children.

Trouble, however, started after the suspect could not state
the actual sex and age of the babies.

Victoria, who had earlier taken pictures of the twins and
sent to the man, had told him they were boys and two months old.

But when the retired commissioner eventually saw the babies,
he realised they were a boy and girl, and looked much older than two months.

It was at that point that Mrs. Uche suspected something was
amiss and told the man the babies’ actual age and sex.

“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 declined the proposal, but he later
changed his mind since the woman said she wanted the children to act in a film.
I begged my husband and he said he will only agree 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 the kids that will act the film.

“But when I sat down, I heard the man asking her whether the
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 girl, and that they are four months old.

“The man asked whose children and I told him they are my
children, that the woman said she wanted to act film with them.

“That was when the man started shouting, saying that she
told him that my children are his grandchildren. The man said she has sent
their picture before, saying his son impregnated a woman 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 told them that I am innocent. The woman told them she wanted to get
money from the man. That woman is a criminal,” Mrs. Uche said.

The Nation