A woman has been nabbed by the police after she spearheaded the kidnap and sale of a little child.
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The Benue State Police Command in collaboration with the Abia State Police Command have arrested eight persons suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of children for ransom.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Paul Yakadi, who briefed journalists about the crime while parading nine suspects and the rescued children before Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, said the suspects kidnapped five children in Makurdi, took them to Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, where they sold one of them for N700,000.
Accoring to Daily Post, they were however traced with seven of the kidnappers arrested including the buyer of the child who paid N700,000 for one of the kidnapped boys.
The unidentified brain behind the kidnap who is a woman reportedly claimed that the children were brought to her to provide them with care, but investigations by the police, according to reports, revealed she sold one of the kidnapped boys for N700,000 to another woman who also trades in children.
According to Yakadi, two of the victims had been re-united with their families.
Governor Ortom, while handing over the two of the rescued kidnap victims to their parents, said there was no hiding place for kidnappers and criminals in the state.