A 33-year-old woman identified as Olaide Adekunle has been arrested for selling her baby for N600,000 to pay off a bank loan.
According to reports, the young woman was arrested by the Ogun State police command for allegedly selling off her 18-month-old baby to a yet-to-be-identified buyer at the rate of N600,000. The husband of the woman, Nureni Rasaq, reported the incident at Sango divisional headquarters. He reported to the police that his wife, Olaide Adekunle, left home for Lagos on the 15th of March 2023 with their baby girl called Moridiat Rasaq, but returned home without the child. After the incident was reported to the police, an arrest warrant was issued to arrest the woman and upon interrogation, the suspect confessed that she has sold her baby to someone in Lagos at the rate of six hundred thousand naira (#600,000). The mother of the children disclosed that she sold the child to an unknown woman in Lagos in order to get money to pay off the loan she took from a microfinance bank.
The 48-year-old lover of the young man identified as Ijeoma Felix met the suspect in a Facebook group in 2020 and started dating. According to reports, the suspect stole the victim’s car and other valuables. While being interrogated, the suspect on Tuesday confessed to having hit the victim with a pestle during an allegedly violent argument at her two-bedroom residence in the Lugbe area of the FCT on October 24. The suspect told the police that after they met on Facebook, the deceased asked him to move in with her but as time went in, the relationship became toxic with him being the victim. He further disclosed that he was engaged in an argument with the deceased over a Toyota Highlander she had given him, which he sold without her consent. However, their argument escalated into a fistfight where the deceased met her death. The suspect disclosed that after killing Ijeoma, he took the car documents of his lover’s Camry and sold it for N1.7 million. 
