CYRIACUS IZUEKWE
Plans by two women, suspected to be child traffickers in Ogun State, were foiled in an attempt to sell away a one week old stolen baby boy.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that one of the women, 53-year old Chinyere Nwosu, was seen with the baby at about 9am on the said date and she could not breastfeed the crying baby as a mother.
They were said to have conspired and stolen the baby from the mother in Agege area of Lagos and moved to Ogun State, where they were eventually arrested.
Their arrest followed as the baby was being taken away, he started crying and disturbing to the extent that members of the public started wondering how the mother of the baby could not breast feed him.
That made the members of the public became suspicious and they immediately alerted the Police at Sango Ota Divisional Headquarters. She was arrested and detained at the station for interrogation.
This was disclosed by the Police Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi.
DSP Oyeyemi stated: “Upon the information, the DPO of Sango Ota, SP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to the scene, where the woman was promptly arrested”.
The arrested suspect, Nwosu, confessed during interrogation that she was not the biological mother of the child but that she bought the child somewhere in Agege area of Lagos State through one Ngozi Akaeme at the rate of N500,000.
Upon her confession, the Police detectives went after the said Ngozi Akaeme and got her arrested.
Akaeme reportedly told the Police that she was an accomplice to Chinyere Nwosu, adding that she actually negotiated with the biological mother of the baby, who agreed to sell the baby.
Oyeyemi said efforts to make the second suspect, Akaeme, accompany the Police operatives to locate the biological mother of the baby proved abortive.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the two suspects should be transferred to the State CIID for further investigation.