Lagos: Police arrest pastor, four others for selling two-month-old baby
The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a two-month-old baby boy and arrested five suspects for alleged child trafficking.
The state police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Saturday, said the operatives of the Oko Oba division arrested the suspects following a report by the mother of the missing baby.
Mr Hundeyin said the mother of the baby reported that one Gloria Sunday allegedly absconded with her child to an unknown destination on July 11.
He stated, “Detectives swung into action which led to the arrest of Gloria Sunday, who during interrogation confessed to selling the baby for five hundred thousand naira (₦500,000) to one Pastor Peter Udoh ‘m’.”
“Pastor Udoh, who was subsequently arrested in Ikene town, Ogun State, admitted reselling the child for one million, four hundred and fifty thousand naira (₦1,450,000) to one Loretta Nelson ‘f’ who was then also apprehended in Festac Town, Lagos. She confessed to selling the baby for two million, three hundred and fifty thousand naira (₦2,350,000).”
He also disclosed that “further investigations led to the arrest of the final buyers of the baby, Mr and Mrs James Uwam, during the naming ceremony of the stolen child.”
According to the command’s spokesperson, all the suspects will be arraigned in court after the conclusion of the investigation.
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