4-Year Old-Girl Used As Ransom For N100 Debt In Abakaliki

A four year-old girl, (name withheld), was used as ransom to settle N100 debt owed a widow, Mrs Josephine Nwali, in Abakaliki.

Mrs Cecilia Elom, Head of Child Maltreatment Unit of the Ebonyi Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Thursday, describing the incident as ‘inhuman’.

Elom confirmed that the child’s mother, Veronica, owed Nwali N100 for a business transaction at