Guardian, 4 Others ‘Sell’ Newborn N3m
THECONSCIENCE NG reports that Operatives of the Lagos Police Command have arrested a guardian and four other suspects for allegedly selling a two-week-old baby for N3 million.
The suspects, Nonye Osi, Akintan Adedayo, Jimoh Bashiru, Elizabeth Bishop, and Bukola Oladapo, were arrested by detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the Lagos State Police Command.
Their arrest followed a case of abduction and child theft filed by a man for his 16-year-old cousin, Happiness, who went missing while pregnant after he had been entrusted with taking care of Osi.
In a statement, the spokesman for the police command, Chief Superintendent of Police, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident.
He said: “However, Nonye Osi conspired with others to relocate Miss Happiness to an unknown location. When she was eventually found, she was without her pregnancy and the baby.
“Following transfer of the case to the SCID for discreet investigation, the police arrested the following suspects who had conspired and sold the baby for N3,000,000. Nonye Osi, Akintan Adedayo, Jimoh Bashiru, Elizabeth Bishop, and Bukola Oladapo.
“Through painstaking efforts, detectives traced and successfully recovered the stolen two-week-old baby boy from Agemuwo, Badagry. The child was found safe and sound.
“The Gender/Anti-Human Trafficking Unit is handling the case and attending to the baby, who is in good health, pending his reunion with his biological mother.’’
Meanwhile, a five-month-old baby boy has been reunited with his mother, three months after being stolen by a suspected child trafficker, Mrs. Joy Temitope Oyetimi, 49, en route Warri, in Delta State.
Commissioner of Police, Delta State, Olufemi Abaniwonda, made this known during a news conference in Asaba, the state capital yesterday, stating that the mother, 20, was drugged by the suspect.
According to him, the incident occurred February 16, while the mother was on a business trip with the suspect from Koko to Warri.
The baby was two months old then.
“While they were on their way, Mrs. Joy drugged his wife via a juice, she slept off and the suspect made away with her two months old baby boy.
“Acting on this information, the DPO Ekpan Police station embarked on an intelligence-led investigation, trailed and arrested the suspect, Mrs Joy Temitope Oyetimi ‘f’ aged 49yrs and after discreet interrogation, the suspects stated that indeed she was the one who stole the baby.
“The baby who is now five months old has been rescued and handed over to his parents. Suspect is in custody and the investigation is ongoing,” the CP stated.
