By Ikugbadi Oluwasegun
The Police in Anambra State have arrested a couple trafficking one month old Baby from Lagos. The interception was made at Bridgehead in Onitsha on Sunday 17th December, 2023.
This was disclosed in press release issued by DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, Anambra State Police Command Spoke Person where he stated that the couple were travelling 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.
DSP Ikenga said that the arrest was occurred through the intervention of one good samaritan whose 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.
According to him , The Police laid 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.
He said that the couple confessed buying the child from its mother in Ajah, Lagos for the sum of N30,000.
CP Aderemi Adeoye, Commissioner of Police has directed that the couple be handed to National Agency for Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons (NAPTIP) for further investigation and prosecution. Meanwhile the Baby has been handed to the Ministry of Women Affairs for care by the State Government.
He thanked the public spirited citizen for his humane concern in giving the information that led to the rescue of the child, commended Police Operatives for their vigilance and dedication to duty.