A 33 – year old woman, Olaide Adekunle, has sold her 18 -month old baby at the rate of N600,000 to a yet -to -be – identified – buyer.
It was learnt that the woman sold her baby to offset what she considered as a traumatizing debt arising from a microfinance bank loan.
Detectives from the Ogun State Police Command are now searching for the elusive Lagos based buyer to retrieve the baby girl.
Police spokesperson in the state, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the mother of the little girl was arrested when her husband, Nureni Rasaq, informed the Sango divisional headquarters that his wife, Olaide Adekunle, left home for Lagos on the 15th of March 2023 with their baby girl named Moridiat Rasaq, but returned home without the girl.
Oyeyemi said further that as the woman was unable or unwilling to give her husband a satisfactory account of the baby’s whereabout, detectives moved in and arrested her.
“The suspect confessed that she has sold the baby to someone in Lagos at the rate of six hundred thousand naira (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 dragging her and 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 stated.
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Meanwhile the acting Commissioner of Police, DCP Babakura Muhammed, has directed that the suspect be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible recovery of the baby.
