A Brave Nigerian man has been detained by the Nigeria Police for allegedly selling his 9 months old son to 3 different buyers.
According to David Akinremi, the Commandant of the Corps in Ogun State, the agency got information that the father had serially traded his son, Daniel Chinonye Darlington.
According to him, Chigozie sold the young child to three separate buyers at various locations in the Lagos neighbourhoods of Sango, Meiran, and Apapa. Between August 2022 and February 2023, unidentified purchasers paid the suspect, a resident of Abela in Sango Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, N150,000, N400,000, and N700,000.
Akinremi claims that the corps’ investigation showed that the man, who is suspected of working with a criminal organization, developed a method for retrieving his son from each buyer after each sale until he sold him to the final buyer, a Dr Nosa in Apapa.
Chigozie confessed to the murder in his confessional statement. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) is profiling him in preparation for a follow-up investigation to locate the minor and for criminal prosecution. In related events, a 17-year-old boy named Noble Uzuchi was detained in Rivers State for having an unplanned pregnancy with 10 women.
The suspect was apprehended along with his partner, Chigozie Ogbonna, 29, by the State Police command.
