How Husband & Wife Arranged With Buyer To Sell Their One Month Old Baby For N50,000

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Facts have emerged how a man, Eze Onyebuchi and his wife, Oluchi Eze, arranged and sold their one month old baby to a buyer for N50,000. 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Ilara area of Ode Remo, in Remo North Local Government area of Ogun State, where they reside.

 The couple has been arrested by operatives from Ogun State Police Command and are undergoing interrogation over the dastardly act.

This confirmed by the PPRO, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who stated the couple was arrested on 16th December, 2021, following an information received by Policemen at Ode Remo Divisional Headquarters, that the couple willingly sold their one month old baby to a woman, who is now at large.

“Upon the information, the DPO Ode Remo Division, CSP Olayemi Fagbohun, detailed his detectives to the area where the couple was arrested and brought to the station.”
“On interrogation, the suspects explained to the Police that it was one Mrs. Ruth Obajimi, who directed the yet to be identified buyer to them. They stated further that the woman came to them on December 14, 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.“Effort is in top gear to apprehend the said woman with the view to recover the baby,” he stated.

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 for further investigation. He equally directed a massive manhunt for the buyer, who has since taken to flight after the Police got information over the shady deal.