A one-month-old baby has been rescued by the Anambra State Police Command from a trafficking couple who bought the baby for N30,000 from the infant’s mother in Ajah, Lagos State.
In a statement by the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga on the 19th of December 2023 stated that the interception was made at the Onitsha headbridge on 17th December, 2023.
It was gathered that the couple was traveling in a Luxury bus belonging to a popular transport company with the baby when a co-passenger observed that the mother could not breastfeed the baby despite its cry for food in the course of the journey.
“The good samaritan put a call through to Anambra Police on its Control Room hotline in Awka which then relayed the information to the Police at Bridgehead in Onitsha.
“The Police lay in wait for the luxury bus described and intercepted it in the evening hours. The couple and the Baby were identified and brought down for questioning.
They confessed to buying the child from its mother in Ajah, Lagos for the sum of N30,000.”
Meanwhile, the couple was arrested and handed to the National Agency for Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons (NAPTIP) for further investigation and prosecution while the Baby was handed to the Ministry of Women Affairs for care by the State Government.
