A 20 years old girl, Miracle Kalu, from Ohafia, Abia State was arrested alongside her accomplice for selling her 28 day old child for N130,000.
According to the report, Miracle Kalu said after she got pregnant, her lover denied been responsible for the pregnancy, out of lack of fund to take care of her baby and her health condition forced her into selling her 28 day old child.
Her accomplice, Patrick Mbama, 41 and Ogechi Ekwebele, 30 were arrested while returning from Imo state around 2 am at Anthony Lagos.
The Police Commissioner of Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, said that the baby was crying in the vehicle and the supposed mother of the child refused to breastfeed the baby and this raised other passengers ‘ suspicion.
The Police Commissioner of Lagos State reported that:
“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, a police source disclosed that 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,” she added.
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