Mother Sells 18-Month-Old Child for N600,000 To Repay Loan
The suspect, according to a statement by the command's spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested following a complaint lodged at Sango divisional headquarters by the woman's husband, Nureni Rasaq.
Oyeyemi said Rasaq reported that his wife, Olaide Adekunle, left home for Lagos on March 15th, 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 detective 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.
"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.
Meanwhile, the State acting Commissioner of Police, DCP Babakura Muhammed, has directed that teh suspect be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, for further investigation and possible recovery of the baby.
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