December 19, (THEWILL) – Police in Ogun state have arrested a couple for allegedly selling their one-month old baby for the sum of N50,000 at Ilara in Remo Local Government Area of the state.
The suspects, Eze Onyebuchi, and his wife Oluchi Eze, were arrested on December, 16, 2021, following information received by policemen at Ode Remo divisional headquarters that the couple willingly sold their child to a woman who is now at large.
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed this to newsmen in a statement in Abeokuta on Sunday.
Oyeyemi said upon the information, the DPO Ode Remo division, CSP Olayemi Fagbohun, sent his detectives to the area where the couple were arrested.
The Police PRO said the suspects confessed, on interrogation, that it was one Mrs. Ruth Obajimi that directed the yet-to-be identified buyer to them.
“They stated further that the woman came to them on the 14th of December 2021,and told them that she is from human rights office, and that she will help them to foster their child.
“The woman then gave them the sum of fifty thousand naira and they handed over the baby to her despite not knowing her from Adam.” he noted
Oyeyemi added that the police re on the lookout for the said woman to recover the baby from her.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the anti human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department.
equally directed a massive manhunt for the buyer who has since absconded.
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