Photo: The two suspects with the stolen baby
The police in Ogun State have arrested two women for allegedly stealing a one-week-old baby in the state.
The spokesman for the state police command,
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the spokesman of the command, disclosed this to newsmen in Abeokuta, on Saturday.
According to Oyeyemi, the suspects, whose names he gave as Chinyere Nwosu and Ngozi Akaeme, were arrested in Sango Ota area on July 25.
He said that Nwozu, 53, was seen with the baby at about 9:00 a.m. on that fateful day.
“The woman was seen with the crying one-week-old baby boy on the said date.
“When members of the public discovered she could not breastfeed the crying baby as a mother, they became suspicious and immediately alerted the police at Sango Ota divisional headquarters.
“Upon the receipt of the information, the DPO of Sango Ota, SP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to the scene where the woman was promptly arrested.
“The suspect confessed during interrogation that she was not the biological mother of the child.
“She confessed to have bought the child for N500,000. somewhere in Agege area of Lagos State through one Ngozi Akaeme.
“Following her confession, the detectives went after the said Ngozi Akaeme and got her arrested.
Oyeyemi further said that upon interrogation, Akaeme told the police that she was Nwozu’s accomplice.
The police spokesman added that Akaeme also confessed that she bought the baby from the baby’s mother
