Ogun Police Arrests Two For Theft Of Week-Old Baby

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested Chinyere Nwosu, a 53-year-old woman for the theft of a week-old infant male child.

The suspect according to the Police Command was arrested on July 25, 2022, at 9:00 am.

According to the command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the arrest was carried out when she was seen with a little baby who was crying but she could not breastfeed him as a mother. 

"This aroused the suspicion of some members of public who quickly alerted the police at Sango Ota divisional headquarters.

"Upon the information, the DPO Sango Ota, SP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to the scene where the woman was promptly arrested. 

"On interrogation, she confessed to the police that she is not the biological mother of the child but that she bought the child somewhere in Agege area of Lagos State through one Ngozi Akaeme at the rate of N500,000.

"Upon her confession, detectives went after the said Ngozi Akaeme and got her arrested.

"She confessed to being an accomplice to Chinyere Nwozu and that she actually negotiated with the biological mother of the baby, who according to her agreed to sell the child. 

"Efforts to make her accompany policemen to locate the real mother of the baby proved abortive."

Oyeyemi stated that the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole has directed that the suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible prosecution.