53-yr-old woman, one other arrested for allegedly stealing a baby in Ogun

The police in Ogun State have arrested a 53-year-old woman, Chinyere Nwozu, and her accomplice for allegedly stealing a one-week-old baby boy.

�It was gathered that Nwozu was seen with a crying one-week-old baby at about 9 am on Tuesday, July 25.. 

According to the command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, when she could not bre@stfeed the crying baby as a mother, members of the public became suspicious and they immediately alerted the police at Sango Ota divisional headquarters.

�“Upon the information, the DPO Sango Ota, SP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to the scene where the woman was promptly arrested. 

On interrogation, she confessed to the police that she is not the biological mother of the child but that she bought the child somewhere in the Agege area of Lagos state through one Ngozi Akaeme at the rate of N500,000.

Upon her confession, detectives went after the said Ngozi Akaeme and got her arrested. She confessed been an accomplice to Chinyere Nwozu, and that she actually negotiated with the biological mother of the baby who according to her agreed to sell the baby,” he said in a statement on Saturday, July 30.