The Police Command in Rivers says it has arrested a man, Izuchukwu Success, and five other suspects, for allegedly conspiring to sell his one-day-old baby boy to waiting buyers for N900,000.
The command’s spokesman, SP Nnamdi Omoni, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Wednesday that the other five suspects were all women.
“The sale of the one-day-old baby was aborted by operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) in a covert operation at the early hours of Tuesday.
“The operatives cracked the child trafficking syndicate at Igwuruta, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers.
ALSO READ: Makinde flags off N781.7m reconstruction of Akesan market in Oyo
“Personnel arrested one Florance Jonah, 56, who is alleged to have conspired with the father of the child, Mr Izuchukwu Success, to sell him to waiting for buyers at N900,000,” he said.
The police spokesman said that the father of the infant was arrested and he took the policemen to a centre where the child was kept.
“The father led the police to Better Life Clinic in Eneka, Rivers, where the child was eventually recovered and handed over to his real mother, Mrs Rejoice Izuchukwu.
“Both mother and child are in stable health condition, he said.
Omoni said that the suspects are helping police investigators with details of the crime, adding that they would be charged to court as soon as investigation was concluded.
(NAN)
YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
N2.5trn Voted For Federal Roads In 20 Years
THE Federal Government has in the last 20 years allocated the sum of N2.542 trillion to construction and rehabilitation of federal roads, Tribune Online findings at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, as well as the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, have revealed. The allocation was made during the administrations of four former leaders of the country; General Abdulsalami Abubakar (1999), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007), Alhaji Umaru Yar’ Adua (2007-2010) and Dr Goodluck Jonathan (2010-2015) and the current…
School Reopening: JAMB Meets Heads Of Tertiary Institutions On New Admission Dat
