A young lady, alongside her accomplices have been arrested for selling her new born baby for N130k due to poverty.
20-year-old Miracle Kalu from Ohafia, Abia state, said that the lack of money to take adequate care of her health condition and also fend for the baby pushed her into selling the 28-day-old child.
While being interrogated, she disclosed to the police that after she found out about her pregnancy, her lover denied responsibility of the pregnancy, which resulted in her selling the baby due to poverty.
Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said the baby was crying in the vehicle and the supposed mother of the child, Ogechi Ekwebele, was advised to breastfeed the baby but her hesitation raised other passengers’ suspicion.
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Hakeem Odumosu said: “Upon questioning, this particular childless couple claimed that a childless man and wife in Lagos had paid for the said baby.” Kalu, who spoke to journalists, said she was an orphan and a secondary school dropout.
However, according to reports, Kalu is notorious for selling her children, as it was not her first time of giving birth and selling her baby.
The first fake couple, Mbama and Ekwebele, bought the baby from Kalu for N130,000 and resold her for N150,000, to another couple, Izuchukwu Okafor, 51, and Cecilia Okafor, 40, in Lagos.
Okafor said it was the desperation to have a child of my own that pushed her into buying the baby. “Being barren for 15 years is not easy,”
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