Anambra Police Command has arrested a couple trafficking one-month-old baby, purchased for thirty thousand naira from Lagos.
The Command’s Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, who disclosed in a statement in Awka, on
Tuesday, said the interception was made at Bridgehead in Onitsha on 17th
December, 2023.
According to Ikenga, “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 breastfeed
the baby despite its cry for food in the course of the journey.
“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 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 Commissioner of Police, CP
Aderemi Adeoye who thanked the public spirited citizen for his humane concern
in giving the information that led to the rescue of the child, commended Police
Operatives for their vigilance and dedication to duty.
“The CP, has directed that the
couple be handed to National Agency for Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons
(NAPTIP) for further investigation and prosecution.
“Meanwhile the Baby has been
handed to the Ministry of Women Affairs for care by the State Government,” the
PPRO noted.
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