Okechukwu Ibekwe, the father of a five- month old baby, on Wednesday, January 7, has explained how he schemed with his wife, Oluchi to use their son, Chidera as collateral for a N400,000 loan, The Nation reports.
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The 30-year-old suspect, who is currently in police net for allegedly selling his son for N500,000 to one Chinelo based in Ihiala, Anambra State, said he needed money to restart life after he was evicted from his shop at Ladipo, Lagos state, and had lost his commercial bus to inferno.
The unfortunate incident occurred on Tuesday, December 8, at 23, Shinaba Street, Agboroko, Iba town.
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According to Ibekwe: “Things were very hard and I could not fend for my family. It was at the point of difficulty that my wife suggested that we should go and borrow money from one Chinelo. She’s the one who knows Chinelo and she brought her contact.
She suggested that we should give the baby to Chinelo and collect money from her. We agreed that I will collect N25,000 so that I can travel, while N150, 000 will be paid to her account.”
“That was how I took our son and travelled and I collected my own money. But because her share was not paid early, we started quarreling. I was surprised that while I was still in the village, a lawyer called me and I came to Lagos and was arrested.
“I do not know what Chinelo does, I don’t know if she sells children. I did not sell my son to her. We used him to borrow money and it was my wife’s idea. I do not know where my wife is, Chinelo’s husband has been arrested and he told me that my wife’s N150,000 was paid,” the suspect further said.
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However the suspect’s claims was not line with that of the operatives of the Lagos state police command, who tracked him down to Anambra state and arrested him after his wife filed a complaint at Iba Police Post, against him.
Over a month, Ogechi Njoku, a mother of four and two of her accomplices were arrested by the Lagos state police after they allegedly stole a week old baby from Imo state and tried to sell him to a couple in Lagos state for N1m.
Njoku was arrested by officers attached to the Makinde police division around 2:00 am on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, on her way to deliver the baby to the couple.
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