Ogun State Police command has arrested a 33-year-old woman, Olaide Adekunle, for trading off her 18 months old baby for N600,000 to settle her microfinance bank’s debt in Ogun.
The suspect, according to a statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the woman was arrested following a complain lodged at Sango divisional headquarters by the woman’s husband, one Nureni Rasaq.
Oyeyemi said Rasaq reported that his wife, Olaide Adekunle, left home to Lagos on March 15, with their baby girl, Moridiat Rasaq, but returned home without her.
He lamented that all efforts to know what happened to the baby proved abortive as the woman was unable to give a convincing account of the whereabouts of the said baby.
“Upon the report, the DPO Sango division, CSP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives 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 consequence 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,” Oyeyemi said.
