Two ladies have been detained by Ogun State police officers on suspicion of snatching a one-week-old infant.
The women were detained by the agents in the Sango Ota region of the state on July 25, according to Abimbola Oyeyemi, a spokesman for the state police command, who gave journalists confirmation of the news on Saturday in Abeokuta.
He named Chinyere Nwosu and Ngozi Akaeme as the suspects.
On that fatal day, Oyeyemi claimed that the 53-year-old Nwozu was observed holding the infant at around 9:00 a.m.
The spokesman said: “The woman was seen with the crying one-week-old baby boy on the said date. When members of the public discovered she could not breastfeed the crying baby as a mother, they became suspicious and immediately alerted the police at Sango Ota divisional headquarters.
“Upon the receipt of the information, the DPO of Sango Ota, SP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to the scene where the woman was promptly arrested.
“The suspect confessed during interrogation that she is not the biological mother of the child, but she bought the child somewhere in the Agege area of Lagos State through one Ngozi Akaeme for N500,000.
“Following her confession, the detectives went after the said Ngozi Akaeme and got her arrested. Akaeme told the police that she was an accomplice to Chinyere Nwozu and confessed that she actually negotiated with the mother of the baby who agreed to sell him.”
