Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 33-year-old woman, Olaide Adekunle, for selling her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to a yet-to-be-identified buyer.
The suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged at Sango divisional headquarters by the woman’s husband, one Nureni Rasaq, who reported that his wife, Olaide Adekunle, left home for Lagos on March 15, 2023, with their baby girl, by name, Moridiat Rasaq, but returned home without the baby.
He stated further that all efforts to know what happened to the baby proved abortive as the woman was unable to give any reasonable account of the whereabouts of the said baby.
“Upon the report, the DPO Sango division, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to go after the said woman, and she was promptly arrested.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she had sold the baby to someone in Lagos at the rate of 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 bank agents started dragging her and threatening to deal with her. It was as a consequence of 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,” a police source said.
Meanwhile, the acting state’s Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Babakura Muhammed, has directed that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and possible recovery of the baby.
