Two women nabbed for allegedly stealing baby in Ogun

Two women have been apprehended by the police over alleged stealing of a baby boy in Ogun State.

MOUTHPIECE NGR learnt that the two women were caught by men of the Ogun state Police Command on July 25.

MOUTHPIECE NGR gathered that one of the suspects, 53-year-old Chinyere Nwozu, was sighted with the crying one week old baby at about 9 am of the said date.

Members of the public became suspicious when the suspect could not breastfeed the crying baby as a mother.

The people around immediately alerted the police at Sango Ota divisional headquarters.

“Upon the information, the DPO of Sango Ota, SP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to the scene where the woman was promptly arrested,” Ogun police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi said on Saturday.

Oyeyemi said, the arrested Nwozu had confessed during interrogation that “she is not the biological mother of the child; but that she bought the child somewhere in Agege area of Lagos state through one Ngozi Akaeme at the rate of 500,000 naira.”

Upon her confession, it was gathered that the operatives went after the said Ngozi Akaeme and got her apprehended.

Akaeme reportedly confessed to the police that she was an accomplice to Chinyere Nwozu, adding that “she actually negotiated with the biological mother of the baby who agreed to sell the baby.”

The police spokesman said efforts to make Akaeme fish out the biological mother of the baby is, proved abortive.

He said the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered that the two suspects should be moved to the State CIID for further investigation and possible prosecution.