Police arrest woman for selling her 18-month-old baby to offset loan

Adekunle, who lives in Sango in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, was said to have sold her baby to offset her bank loan. The suspect was nabbed following a complaint lodged at Sango Divisional Headquarters by her husband, Nureni Rasaq.

Disclosing the arrest of the suspect, Ogun Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi said Adekunle’s husband reported that his wife left home for Lagos on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, with their baby girl, Moridiat, but returned home without her.

According to the police spokesperson, the husband added that all efforts to know what happened to the baby proved abortive as the woman was unable to give any reasonable account of the baby’s whereabouts.

“Upon the report, the DPO Sango Division, CSP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to go after the woman and she was promptly arrested.

“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she has sold the baby to someone in Lagos at the rate of ₦600,000.

“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 money, the bank agents started dragging her and threatening to deal decisively with her.

“It was consequent upon 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,” Oyeyemi added.

The acting Commissioner of Police, DCP Babakura Muhammed, had directed that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation and possible recovery of the baby.