The Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested a 33-year-old woman, who allegedly sold her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to pay a bank loan.
The incident, according to Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police spokesman, occurred at Sango-Ota area of the State.
The police however said on Monday that they were yet to identify the suspected buyer.
Oyeyemi said: “The suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged at the Sango Divisional Headquarters by the woman’s husband, Nureni Rasaq.
“Rasaq reported that his wife, left home to Lagos on March 15, with their baby girl but returned home without the baby.
“He said that all efforts to know what happened to the baby failed because the woman was unable to give any reasonable account of the whereabouts of the baby.”
Upon receiving the complaint, the Divisional Police Officer, Sango Division, CSP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to go after the woman and she was promptly arrested.
The woman upon interrogation, confessed that she sold the baby to someone in Lagos for N600,000.
Oyeyemi said also that when asked, why she sold her baby, the suspect said 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 with her.
”She ran to Lagos and started hawking sachet water. It was while hawking that she met a man, who introduced her to the woman who eventually bought the child,” the PPRO added.
The Acting Commissioner of Police, DCP Babakura Muhammed, has directed that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible recovery of the baby.
