Adamawa State Police Command has arrested female suspects for alleged conspiracy, stealing and selling of a four-year-old boy known as Friday Okonkwo.
The suspects are Blessing Okonkwo, 24, and Efunaya Nabufe, 35, who live in Mubi North local government area.
They allegedly confessed to the crime while being interrogated by the police public relations officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje.
Earlier, Ngurore said the mother of the boy, Hauwa Lawan, who lives at Rimirgo in Askira Uba local government area, Borno State, reported the stealing of her son to the police on July 2, 2024.
Blessing, who is Friday’s elder sister, met their mother at Rimirgo sometime last year and pleaded with her to release him to enrol him in school in Mubi since there was no standard school in Rimirgo.
Hauwa released the boy to her, being her first daughter, unknown to her that she had concluded negotiations with Efunaya to sell the boy to her.
In the course of negotiations, Blessing was said to have deceived Efunaya that Friday was her child and that she was impregnated while in secondary school and gave birth to him.
She left with the boy to Mubi and sold him at the sum of N410,000 to Efunaya who later took the boy to Enugu State as both of them confessed to the police.
During interrogation, Blessing said she had used the money to buy a grinding machine and handset and gave her fiance N200,000.
The PPRO stated that the investigation is ongoing as ordered by the commissioner of police, Morris Dankombo, and assured that the suspects will be charged in court upon completing the investigation.
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