33years Old Woman Arrested For Selling Her 18-month-old Baby For N600k To Pay Off Bank Loan

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 33-year-old woman, identified as Olaide Adekunle, for allegedly selling her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to pay off a bank loan.

 The suspect was apprehended when her husband, Nureni Rasaq, filed a complaint at Sango divisional headquarters, claiming that she left home for Lagos on March 15, 2023, with their baby girl, Moridiat Rasaq, but never returned with the baby.

He went on to say that all efforts to find out what happened to the infant were futile since the woman could not explain the baby’s whereabouts.

The command’s spokesperson, in a statement on April 17th said: “On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she has sold the baby to someone in Lagos at N600,000.

When asked the reason for her action, she stated that she borrowed money from a microfinance bank & when she was unable to pay back the money, the bank agents started threatening to deal decisively with her.

 

Nigerian Soldier Arrested For Selling And Hiring Guns To Kidnappers

 

Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) have arrested a soldier attached to the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment in Tungan-Maje, Abuja, for allegedly hiring out and selling guns to kidnappers.

 

 The soldier, identified simply as Nafiu, was arrested last week around Dankogi Park in Zuba in collaboration with members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in the area.

It was reported that the DSS from Gwagwalada office sought the assistance of the local security group in Zuba to arrest the suspect based on previous arms deal allegations against him.

According to a source, “It was learnt that the suspect, in the first deal, had allegedly hired out a g#n for a kidnap operation for N300,000. Then in the second instance, they contacted him for another deal and he demanded N200,000 which the kidnappers allegedly paid, but he failed to produce the gun.”

The source said when the kidnappers, who have been in the DSS custody, made the allegation against the soldier, a sting operation was planned against him.

“So they contacted him for another deal to supply them with AK-47s to buy at the cost of N3 million. We went to the agreed site on the delivery day here in Zuba, and took position. He arrived at the scene in his car to present the arm, and that was the time we came out and caught him with the gun well wrapped,” he added.

An AK-47 rifle as well as a fully loaded magazine with 30 rounds of ammunition were found inside one of the safe compartments of his car.