Nigeria: Inheritance Drama - Widow Purchases Baby to Claim Husband's Property

27 February 2021

A 45 year-old man accused of collaborating with a widow to abduct a 6-month old baby for illicit act has told police detectives investigating the issue that the prime suspect, Mrs Stella Ekwerekwu, bought the baby she presented to her late husband at his sick bed as their biological child for N600,000.

Stella's husband, Victor Ekwerekwu, a business mogul had reportedly died in the hospital shortly after the baby was shown to him as his.

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