Three woman who conspired to steal and sell a baby have been nabbed and must now face the full wrath of the law.
A 25-year-old woman, Ogechi Njoku, and two women, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command in Lagos for allegedly stealing a week-old baby from Imo State, and seling him to a couple in the Cele-Mile 2 area of Lagos state for the sum of N1m.
According to Punch, Njoku was arrested by policemen attached to the Makinde division around 2am on Wednesday, November 4, on her way to deliver the baby to the couple.
Njoku then led the State Intelligence Bureau, which handled the matter, to arrest her two accomplices – Patience Nwaogbo and Ngozi Izuora.
It was learnt that Njoku, a sales girl in Omuwa Town, Imo, was sent by her accomplices last Tuesday to Lagos, and had travelled in a car with the baby throughout the night.
The commercial driver, however, became suspicious when Njoku could not breastfeed the baby when he cried, but instead gave him baby food.
The driver was said to have alerted the police on patrol when they got to the Oshodi Oke area of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, and Njoku was interrogated and arrested.
According to the police, Njoku, Nwaogbo and Izuora have made confessional statements, while their collaborator, said to be Njoku’s aunt, is still on the run.
Njoku, who claimed to have four children in Imo, said the plan was that she would give the baby to the couple in the Cele area, adding that he, however, started crying when they got to Lagos.