Police detectives in Asaba, Delta State, have arrested a housewife identified as Elizabeth Okolie in Okpanam community for allegedly selling her baby for N1.5 million.
It was reliably gathered that the woman,33, a trader in one of the markets in the area, allegedly sold her baby when the purported father refused to accept the paternity. Police Commissioner in the State, Alkali Baba Usman confirmed that the detectives acted on a tip off and arrested the woman on her way to Benin City after she had allegedly sold the baby to an unidentified buyer.
The police boss said that the woman, upon interrogation, made useful statements to the police, adding that the police detectives have gone after the buyer of the baby.
Family sources said that the woman, a secondary school drop-out, escaped with the man she claimed she had been married to and she immediately got pregnant. She delivered a baby girl when the bubble burst. But the Police Commissioner said “We arrested the woman through useful information that the baby she put to bed three months ago was sold to an unidentified buyer when she had quarrels with the man she claimed to be her husband and the man denied the paternity of the child. We have made frantic efforts to bring the buyer to book and our men have gone after the buyer while the woman is currently in our custody helping the police with investigation, the man she claimed to be her husband denied paternity of the baby”.
Meanwhile, an Okada rider, whose name could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report was on Tuesday allegedly murdered by yet unidentified gunmen in Amachai quarters, Okpanam community.
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