Man arrested for selling day-old granddaughter for N700,000

A newborn baby

The operatives of the Oyo State Police Command have arrested a man for selling his granddaughter in Oyo town to a baby factory in Abia State for N700,000.

Five accomplices of the man were also arrested at the baby factory.

The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Adebola Hamzat, who made this known in Ibadan, the state capital, on Saturday, August 12, 2023, said the man took his granddaughter from her teenage mother, Sarah Chukwuka, on July 10.

Hamzat disclosed that the man was later arrested at his hideout in Ibafo, Ogun State.

The police commissioner said: “The suspect who identified himself as the biological father of the teenage mother of the day-old baby girl confessed to the crime.

“He explained how he took the baby from the mother pretending that he would hand over the baby over to a caregiver.

“The suspect also explained how he moved the baby to Abia where he sold her to the owner of the baby factory at Obehi in Okwa West Local Government Area of the state for N700,000.

“A raid on the baby factory led to the arrest of a female suspect identified as Bunmi and four other accomplices.”

He said a bundle of new birth certificates and some equipment used in labour rooms were equally recovered from the factory.

The police commissioner said the five additional suspects were unable to give any satisfactory explanation about the parentage of the babies recovered from the factory.

Hamzat also paraded six other suspects arrested for robbery, kidnapping, cultism, and car theft.

He said the suspects robbed a victim of expensive mobile phones, laptops, jewellery, and some other valuable items worth millions of naira in Ibadan while armed with machetes, jack knives, and other dangerous weapons.

Hamzat said the suspects also confessed to a series of previous criminal activities they had masterminded at different locations in the Oyo State capital.

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