Police Arrest Couple For Trafficking One Month Old Baby In Onitsha

The Anambra Police Command, Have Arrested a couple trafficking in a one month old baby into Anambra State from Lagos, this took place in Onitsha yesterday.

The couple confessed to buying the child for N30,000, after they were arrested at Bridgehead Onitsha, while travelling into Anambra from Lagos, after a tip off by a fellow passenger.

In a press statement issued by the police spokesperson of the Anambra police Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, he said: “The interception was made at Bridgehead in Onitsha on 17th December, 2023.

“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 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 even breastfeed the baby despite its cry for food in the course of the journey.

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

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

The Police Spokeperson said, the Commissioner of Police, CP Aderemi Adeoye thanked the public spirited citizen for his concern and giving the information that led to the rescue of the child.

He added that he has directed that the couple be handed to National Agency for Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons (NAPTIP) for further investigation and prosecution, while the Baby has been handed to the Ministry of Women Affairs for care by the State Government", he concludes.

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