Police Arrest Couple Who Buys One-Month-Old Baby For N30,000 As They Smuggles Child From Lagos To Onitsha

The Anambra Police Command has arrested a couple trafficking a one-month-old baby, purchased for thirty thousand naira (N30,000) from Lagos.

VerseNews reports that this was disclosed in a statement issued on Tuesday by the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga.

According to the statement, the interception was made at Bridgehead in Onitsha after a co-passenger observed the mother’s inability to breastfeed the baby during the journey.

The couple confessed to buying the child from its mother in Ajah, Lagos.

“The couple were travelling in a luxury bus belonging to a popular transport company with the baby when a co-passenger observed that the mother could not breastfeed the baby despite its cry for food in the course of the journey.

“The good Samaritan put a call through to Anambra Police on its control room hotline in Awka which then relayed the information to the police at Bridgehead in Onitsha.

“The police laid in wait for the luxury bus described and intercepted it in the evening. The couple and the baby were identified and brought down for questioning.

“They confessed to buying the child from its mother in Ajah, Lagos for the sum of N30,000.”

The Commissioner of Police, CP Aderemi Adeoye commended the public-spirited citizen for reporting the incident and directed that the couple be handed to the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for further investigation and prosecution.

“The CP has directed that the couple be handed to the National Agency for Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons for further investigation and prosecution.

“Meanwhile the baby has been handed over to the Ministry of Women Affairs for care by the state government,” the statement added.

The baby has been placed in the care of the Ministry of Women Affairs.