The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday arrested three persons, among them, a trado-medical doctor, over alleged theft and sale of a two-week old baby.
The state Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Fatai Owoseni, who paraded the suspects yesterday at the command headquarters, Ikeja, identified the trado-medical doctor as Onolaja Olawale and the two suspects as Mr and Mrs Ayogbinle.
He said that the traditional doctor was instrumental to the sale of the baby, while the couple, were the buyers.
According to him, Dr. Olawole allegedly sold the baby to the couple for N136,000.
Mr. Owoseni who identified the child’s parents as Idiatu Babatunde and Akinola Babatunde said the trado-medical healer was instrumental to the sale of the baby. The couple, after paying N136,000 to him, took possession of the baby.
The couple and the doctor have been arrested and the baby reunited with her mother.”
In his confessional statement, the traditional medicine practitioner admitted collecting N136,000 from Mr. And Mrs Ayogbinle, but said that the money was meant to facilitate the procurement of papers to adoption the baby from the Lagos State government.
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