The
Kano state police command have arrested a nurse, barren couple for
buying a five-year-old boy at the rate of N15,000 in Kano.
The State’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Magaji Majiya, who
paraded the suspects in Kano on Wednesday, said that the suspects were
apprehended on October 10, following a tip-off by one Hajiya Fatima who
connived with the police in a plot to arrest the suspects.
“We received
information from Hajiya Fatima that someone wants to buy her baby. So we
told her to tell them she has agreed to sell the boy.
“The suspects bought the baby at the rate of N15,000 and paid N13,000 as part payment.”
The PPRO said that one of the suspect, Itopam Pious, who claimed to
be a nurse at ECWA Eye Hospital Kano, was arrested while trying to
confiscate the baby from his mother.
According
to him, the nurse intended to buy the baby for a couple, Mr and Mrs
Charles Bob-manuel, who came to Kano from Rivers State to adopt a baby
because they were married for 12 years without a child.
Majiya added that the nurse confessed to having committed the offence, while the couple denied the offence.
He said that investigation is still ongoing, adding that the suspects would be charged to court.