A couple residing at Ilara area of Ode Remo, in Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State have been arrested for selling their one-month-old baby for the sum of N50,000.
The police
public relations officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi who disclosed this in a press
statement said the buyer is currently at large and efforts are ongoing to
rescue the baby.
“The
suspects, Eze Onyebuchi and his wife Oluchi Eze were arrested on the 16 of
December 2021, following an information received by policemen at Ode Remo
divisional headquarters, that the couple resident at Ayegbami Street, Ilara
Remo willingly sold their one-month-old baby to a woman who is now at large,”
he said.
He added
that upon receiving the information, the Divisional Police Officer, Ode Remo
Division, CSP Olayemi Fagbohun mobilised his detectives to the area where the
couple was arrested and brought to the station.
Upon
interrogation, the suspects explained to the police that, it was one Mrs. Ruth
Obajimi, who directed the yet-to-be-identified buyer to them, saying that the
woman came to them on the 14th of December 2021 and told them that she is from
the 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 statement added.
He however
said that efforts are on to apprehend the said woman with the view to rescuing
the baby.
The State
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.
He also
directed a massive manhunt for the buyer who is currently on the run.