An alleged baby seller has been remanded by a Gudu Area Court in Abuja.
The suspect, Chukwuebuka Olasosinmi was remanded for allegedly threatening to kill one Mrs Chinwe Nwokola of Adisa Estate, Abuja, for refusing to buy a baby boy from him.
Prosecuting counsel, Oyeyemi Adeniyi, told the court that Nwokola wrote a petition to the office of the Inspector General of Police on August 8 over the incident.
Adeniyi said that the defendant offered to sell a baby boy to the complainant between April and August but that the complainant refused the offer.
The prosecutor also said that the defendant allegedly extorted N330,000, N70,000, N30,000, N45,000, N30,000 and N100,000 at different times from the complainant through threats and blackmail.
He said Olasosinmi reportedly threatened that for refusing his offer, he would send hired killers to wipe out the complainant’s family.
He said that the offences of criminal intimidation and extortion for which the defendant was charged contravened sections 292 and 397 of the Penal Code.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him.
The judge, Alhaji Umar Kagarko, ordered that the accused person be remanded in prison and adjourned the case till December 2