The Delta state police command has arrested a 39-year-old mother identified as Rita Ughale, who sold her two-month-old baby for N500, 000.A statement from the command's spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe, says on December 15 at about 6.40pm, the upect who hail from Kokori, Ethiope East Local Government Area, reported at the Ekpan Police Division that her two-month-old baby was snatched from her during a robbery incident while transiting in a tricycle. Upon receipt of the report, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ekpan Division, CSP Labe Joseph, immediately mobilised operatives of the Division and coordinated a swift search and rescue operation. During the course of the investigation, inconsistencies and suspicious conduct observed in the complainants narrative prompted further interrogation. The complainant subsequently confessed that the report was staged, and revealed that she had sold her child aged two (2) months old to one Osas Omijie, male, aged 39 years, and Judith Omijie, female, aged 30 years, for the sum of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N1,500,000)'' he saidEdafe added that the suspects were arrested, and the infant was successfully rescued and is safe. He further stated that all suspects are currently in custody while investigation continues, with efforts intensified to arrest other accomplices for prosecution.The post Mother who feigned abduction of her 2-month-old baby arrested for selling the child for N1.5m appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.
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