P.M.EXPRESS reports that the above stated comment was the confession of a 33-year old woman, Mrs. Olaide Adekunle, who told the Police that baby was not missing that she actually sold in order to be free from her debtor.
Operatives from the Ogun State Police Command arrested Mrs. Adekunle for selling her baby to a yet to be identified buyer without the consent of her husband.
This was disclosed by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed that she is in Police custody undergoing interrogation over her conduct.
SP Oyeyemi stated that she was arrested following a complaint lodged at Sango Divisional Headquarters by the woman’s husband, Nureni Rasaq, that his wife, Olaide Adekunle, left home to Lagos on 15th March, 2023, with their baby girl, Moridiat Rasaq, but returned home without her.
He 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.
“Upon the report, the DPO Sango Division, CSP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to go after the said woman, and she was arrested. On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she has 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 threatening to deal decisively with her and she sold the baby.”
“It was consequent 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,” the Police spokesman said.
SP Oyeyemi stated that the Police were making efforts to apprehend the buyer and rescue the baby while the suspect will be charged before the Court for the alleged offence but that will be after the conclusion of investigations by the Police.
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Micro finance bank are to harsh on there debtors, can you imagine what's happening in Nigeria,
I remember a woman that set herself ablaze because of #70.000 just seventy thousand she was owing nappo microfinance institutions, many housewife have taken to prostituting because of all these microfinance Bank, for heaven sake all microfinance houses should fear God, where people are unable to pay the initial money, they continue to add interest rate to build up and this is what prompt the borrower to do an undo, I will advice the microfinance Bank to try collect the initial money back and not build up unnecessary interest rate please I'm begging them,