Man sells son to three different buyers for N1.25m

Operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network, popularly referred to as Amotekun Corps, have arrested one Daniel Chigozie for allegedly selling his son to three different buyers in Ogun State.

The Commandant of the Corps in the state, David Akinremi, revealed that the Corps had received information that Chigozie, a 30-year-old male, had sold his nine-month-old baby, Daniel Chinonye Darlington, to three different buyers at various locations in the Sango, Meiran, and Apapa areas of Lagos.

According to reports, between August 2022 and February 2023, he sold the infant for N150,000, N400,000, and N700,000 to unidentified buyers.

Chigozie, who resides in the Sango-Ota neighborhood of Abela in the state’s Ado-Odo Local Government Area, admitted to the crime.

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“The suspect in his statement confessed to the crime and he is being processed to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for a follow-up investigation to recover the child and prosecution,” Akinremi said.

Akinremi added that findings by the corps revealed Chigozie had devised a means through which the son was retrieved from each of the buyers after each sale until he sold him to the last buyer, identified as Dr. Nosa, in Apapa.