A 51-year-old woman, Rose Edward, is in police net in Akwa Ibom State for allegedly buying a two-month-old baby for N450,000.
Mr Murtala Mani, Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, disclosed this on Saturday in Uyo, the state capital, while briefing newsmen, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported.
Mani, who spoke through ASP Cordelia Nwanwe, the spokesperson of the state police command, said that a homeopathtic doctor, Eneyo Nyang, was arrested in connection with the crime.
He said that Edward from Rivers State allegedly confessed to have bought the baby because she needed a baby of her own.
Confessing to the crime, the mother of the baby, Comfort Effiong, said that she sold her baby because there was no one to take care of her.
“I sold the baby because of help. I don’t have anybody to help me. My father is late and my mother is sick and I don’t have anybody to help me,” Effiong said.
Mani assured Akwa Ibom people that the command would not relent in its effort to curb crime in the state.