Police operatives have arrested two people for allegedly selling newborn twins.
Lagos State Police Command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed on Friday that the arrest in the Berger area of the state came after a “Good Samaritan” alerted officers from the Ojodu Division about the suspects.
According to him, the suspects were found with two newborn baby girls, approximately six days old, while traveling from Abia State on September 9, 2024.
Police investigations showed that the suspects were en route to “deliver the babies to one nurse in Lagos State whom the mother of the babies promised to link them up with only after they had arrived in Lagos”.
Upon questioning, Hundeyin disclosed, the suspects confessed to the crime, stating that they were paid the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (₦150,000) for transportation of the babies to Lagos, adding that the mother of the babies sold them because she could not give them proper care.
He said efforts are ongoing to arrest other conspirators while the nabbed suspects were arraigned on Thursday, September 19, 2024.
“The case was transferred to the Gender Unit of the Command from where the newborns were placed in the custody of a motherless babies home for proper care and medical evaluation,” the spokesman
said.
