Two “Child Traffickers” Nabbed

The Central Police Station 3rd District in Bamenda has arrested two persons, Mabel Bih and Nulele Blaise Tama noted for notorious child trafficking. The arrest of the two fellows took place recently after a series of recorded complains about missing children in Bamenda.

According to security reports from Commissioner Ndefru Che David, a case of kidnapping was reported to him January 19, 2010 of a  seven-year old child. Later on the police unit was hinted that Mabel Bih was hiding a child at her Longla neighbourhood residence.

A plan was laid out by the police who came and rescued Mabel Bih from angry an crowd who wanted to lynch her for starving somebody’s child and for having cut her with herbs. Mabel Bih was rushed to the police post and detained pending investigations.

Neighbours testified that Mabel Bih is an old hand in the child trafficking deal. The said Mabel is said to change names of the children she kidnaps. She kidnapped a child named Rachel and changed her name to Cynthia. The child she kidnapped in January was named Itel whose name she changed to Sandra.

In a related story, Nulele Blaise Tama was suspected and arrested for child trafficking. According to the revelation a child named Achu Rena Danuella was snatched from the mother Loveline Nah by an unknown person at the Bamenda fish pond. Shortly after the disappearance of the child, an individual approached the mother of the stolen child and asked her for FCFA 20,000 before he could bring back the child.

The woman immediately availed the money and the child was brought back to her on request of another FCFA 5,000. As the woman opened her bag to give the FCFA 5,000, the individual snatched the bag and went into thin air with all the contents and the sum of FCFA 180,000. The population mounted a network around the Fish Pond Bridge, identified the suspect, the police were alerted and the suspected Nulele Blaise arrested. Nulele Blaise is rumoured to be from Mbouda while Mabel Bih is from Bafut extraction.

The angry population who watched the two traffickers intimated that if pressure is mounted on those fellows, they will reveal their network. Commissioner Ndefru Che Daniel said that justice must take its course over those two fellows to prevent such dubious and inhuman activities as cases from becoming rampant.

By George Chifu