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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 33-year-old woman, Olaide Adekunle, her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to pay her bank loan.
It was learnt that the woman’s husband, Nureni Rasaq filed a complaint lodged at Sango divisional headquarters which led to her arrest.
According to the report, the woman who lives in Sango, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, sold the baby to a yet-to-be-identified buyer in Lagos.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Ogun State Police Spokesperson, SP, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Monday.
The statement read in part, “Upon the report, the DPO Sango division, CSP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to go after the said woman, and she was promptly arrested.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she had sold the baby to someone in Lagos at the rate of N600,000.
“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 threatened 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.”
