Nigerian News

DRAMA: Couple arrested for selling their baby for R1 900

Ogun State police in Nigeria have arrested a couple for allegedly selling their one-month-old baby for N50 000 (about R1 900).

Premium Times reported that cops arrested the couple at their residence on 16 December after receiving information that they had allegedly sold their baby.

In a statement on Monday, police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi said the buyer was a woman who pretended to be from the human rights office.

Oyeyemi said on interrogation, the couple told the cops that someone they knew had referred them to the buyer.

“They stated that the woman came to them on 14 December, telling them that she was from the human rights office and would help foster their child. She gave them N50 000 and they handed over the baby,” the statement read.

It is reported that efforts were ongoing to arrest the woman and recover the baby.

Police commissioner Lanre Bankole has since ordered the transfer of the couple to the anti-human trafficking and child labour unit for further investigation.

-daily sun

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