By Azeez Mustapha
33-year-old mother, Olaide Adekunle, who allegedly sold her 18 months old baby at the rate of N600,000 was arrested by Police Command in Ogun State on Monday.
The police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told newsmen in Abeokuta that the suspect was arrested following a report at Sango divisional headquarters by the woman’s husband, one Nureni Rasaq.
Oyeyemi quoted the husband to have reported that the wife left home for Lagos in March with their baby girl, Moridiat Rasaq, but she returned home without the baby.
The husband stated further that all efforts to know what happened to the baby proved abortive as the woman was unable to give any reasonable account of the whereabouts of the said baby.
The police spokesman said the DPO Sango division, Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to arrest the suspect.
Oyeyemi said during interrogation, the suspect confessed to have sold the baby at the sum of N600,000.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she sold the baby to someone in Lagos at N600,000.
“When asked the reason for her action, she stated that she borrowed money from a microfinance bank, and when she was unable to pay back the money, the bank agents started disturbing her, threatening to deal decisively with her. It was consequence upon this that she ran to Lagos and started hawking sachet water.
“It was while hawking that she met a man who introduced her to the woman that eventually bought the child in Lagos,” Oyeyemi quoted the suspect to have said.
He said the acting Commissioner of Police, DCP Babakura Muhammed, had directed that the suspect be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and possible recovery of the baby.
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