The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a couple residing at Ilara area of Ode Remo, in Remo North local government area of the state for allegedly selling their one month old baby at the rate of N50, 000.
Penpushing reports that, the Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi made this known in a statement on Sunday, adding that the suspects :Eze Onyebuchi (husband)and Oluchi Eze(wife) were arrested on the 16 of December 2021, following an information received by policemen at Ode Remo divisional headquarters
The statement added that information has it that the couple who live at Ayegbami street Ilara Remo willingly sold their one month old baby to a woman who is now at large, while efforts are ongoing to track the runaway woman and rescue the child.
Penpushing further reports that, Oyeyemi explained that upon the information, the Divisional Police Officer,Ode Remo division, CSP Olayemi Fagbohun, detailed his detectives to the area where the couple were arrested and brought to the station.
‘On interrogation, the suspects explained to the police that, it was one Mrs. Ruth Obajimi, who directed the yet to be identified buyer to them. They stated further that the woman came to them on the 14th of December 2021,and told them that she is from Human Rights Office, and that she will help them to foster their child. The woman then gave them the sum of fifty thousand naira and they handed over the baby to her despite not knowing her from Adam’,the police said.
The Command spokesman said the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the Anti Human Trafficking and Child Labour unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation, and equally directed a massive manhunt for the buyer who has since took to flight.
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