The Oyo State Police Command has announced that it has apprehended one ‘Monday Chukwuka’ for allegedly selling his one-day-old grand daughter for N700,000.
The spokesperson of the command, Adewale Osifeso, while parading Monday before newsmen said he was arrested in his hideout in Ibafo area of Ogun State after a credible intelligence tipoff.
“On 10th July, 2023, an actionable intelligence report was received by a team of Police Operatives attached to the Command Monitoring, Oyo State about the ‘’harvesting of a day-old baby girl’’ from her teenage mother identified as Sarah Chukwuka in Oyo town and sale of the girl child to a criminal cartel that operates a baby factory in Abia State.”
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The police spokesman stated that after an intelligence-led interview, Monday, the father of the teenage girl who gave birth to the day-old baby girl, confessed to the crime and explained in detail how he took the baby from her mother as soon as she gave birth after lying to her they wanted to hand over the baby to someone who would take good care of her.
“The suspect further explained in details, how he moved the day old baby to Abia State where he sold her to the owner of a baby factory located at Obehi, Okwa West in Abia State at the rate of sum of Seven Hundred Thousand Naira (N700,000.00). Investigation activity was extended to Abia State and in the process of a coordinated raid on the baby factory, a female suspect identified as Popoola Bunmi and four other accomplices whose names are Chinwedu Peter, Chidinma Blessing, Chuckwu Christopher, and Favour Chukwu were all apprehended in connection with the criminal activity.”
Osifeso noted that bundles of new birth certificates and some equipment for baby deliveries were recovered from the factory, while also adding that the suspects as at the time of apprehension were unable to give any satisfactory explanation about the parentage of the babies recovered from the factory.
Monday in his confession said he decided to sell the baby as he can't afford to take care of his teenage daughter and the baby, saying he used the money he collected after selling the baby to rent a shop and buy goods in it.
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