The Operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network, also known as Amotekun Corps, have arrested one Daniel Chigozie for allegedly selling his son to three different buyers in Ogun State.
David Akinremi, the Commandant of the Corps in the state, disclosed that the Corps got intelligence that Chigozie, a 30-year-old, had sold his nine-month-old son, Daniel Chinonye Darlington, to three different buyers at different locations in Sango, Meiran and Apapa area of Lagos.
He was said to have sold the baby for N150,000, N400,000 and N700,000 respectively to unknown buyers between August 2022 and February 2023.
Chigozie, who resides at Abela, Sango-Ota, in the Ado-Odo Local Government Area of the state confessed to the crime.
Akinremi said the suspect in his statement confessed to the crime and he is being processed to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for a follow-up investigation to recover the child and prosecution.”
Akinremi added that findings by the corps has revealed that Chigozie had devised a means through which the son was retrieved from each of the buyers after each sale until he sold him to the last buyer, A man identified as Dr. Nosa, in Apapa.
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