Mrs. Asabi Adebayo after she was caught by the police
A 60-year-old woman, Asabi Adebayo, has been arrested by the police
in Oyo State for allegedly buying five babies at N5million from
Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
According to The Nation, She was arrested as she has concluded
plans to fly the babies abroad for sale, was said to have brought them
to an orphanage in Ibadan to obtain a certified police report for them
when the bubble burst.
While parading the woman yesterday, the Commissioner of Police Leye
Oyebade, said the woman would have escaped if not for the patriotic
behavior of the officials of the orphanage, who reported the matter at
the Iyaganku Police Station.
The suspect, who said she hailed from Lagos State, is also a
British citizen. The ages of the babies, (two boys and three girls)
range from two years, eight months, seven months, six months and four
months.
The people who sold the babies are now on the run. The babies have
been taken to the Ministry of Women Affairs, Child Welfare; the suspect
is assisting the police in their investigation.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Iyaganku, Mr Ojopagogo, said: “A
woman, who operates an orphanage came to our station last Thursday and
reported to us that a 60-year-old woman came to them that she had five
children and that she needed police report for the children to be flown
abroad .
“Our detectives, led by a Superintendent of Police (SP) from the Juvenile Welfare Section, went to arrest the suspect.
“After her arrest, the suspect told us that she got the
children for N5million and that she bought the children from a woman in
Port-Harcourt. We travelled with the suspect to Port-Harcourt,
unfortunately we could not find the woman.”
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