The State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested four suspects in connection with the abduction and theft of a two-week-old baby.
The police in Ajah division received a report on May 5 from an individual who reported that his 16-year-old cousin, Miss Happiness, was impregnated by an unidentified person.
According to the spokesperson of the command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, police investigation revealed that due to financial constraints, the complainant’s mother entrusted her to one Nonye Osi ‘f’ for accommodation until she delivered.
‘’However, Nonye Osi conspired with others to relocate Miss Happiness to an unknown location. When she was eventually found, she was without her pregnancy and the baby.
Following transfer of the case to the SCID for discreet investigation, the police arrested the following suspects who had conspired and sold the baby for Three Million Naira (N3,000,000.00): Nonye Osi ‘f’, Akintan Adedayo ‘f’, Jimoh Bashiru ‘m’, Elizabeth Bishop ‘f’ and Bukola Oladapo ‘f’.
Through painstaking efforts, detectives traced and successfully recovered the stolen two-week-old baby boy from Agemuwo, Badagry area. The child was found safe and sound.” Hundeyin said
The police imagemaker added that the Gender/Anti-Human Trafficking Unit is currently handling the case and attending to the baby, who is in good health, pending his reunion with his biological mother.