Grandpa in police net for seizing and selling daughter’s baby for N700,000
Tamarauemi Ebimini
Police in Oyo State have arrested a grandfather for seizing his daughter’s day-old-baby in Oyo town and selling same to a baby factory in Abia for N700,000.
Five accomplices of the grandfather were arrested at the baby factory.
Commissioner of Police in Oyo state, Mr Adebola Hamzat, told newsmen in Ibadan on Saturday that the grandfather took the baby girl from her teenage mother, Sarah Chukwuka on July 10.
He was later arrested at his hideout in Ibafo, Ogun.
He said a bundle of new birth certificates and some equipment used in labour rooms were equally recovered from the factory.
The police commissioner said the five additional suspects were unable to give any satisfactory explanation about the parentage of the babies recovered from the factory.
Five accomplices of the grandfather were arrested at the baby factory.
Commissioner of Police in Oyo state, Mr Adebola Hamzat, told newsmen in Ibadan on Saturday that the grandfather took the baby girl from her teenage mother, Sarah Chukwuka on July 10.
He was later arrested at his hideout in Ibafo, Ogun.
He said a bundle of new birth certificates and some equipment used in labour rooms were equally recovered from the factory.
The police commissioner said the five additional suspects were unable to give any satisfactory explanation about the parentage of the babies recovered from the factory.
Hamzat also paraded six other suspects arrested for robbery, kidnapping and cultism and car theft.
Hamzat said the suspects also confessed to series of previous criminal activities they had masterminded at different locations in the Oyo State capital.
