The Lagos State Police Command at the weekend smashed a
syndicate that specialises in abducting and selling children at the Ejigbo area
of the state.
According to the state Police Public Relations
Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, two members of the syndicate were in the process of
selling another abducted baby, a two-weeks-old infant, when they were nabbed.
He said: “A police officer attached to the Motor
Traffic Division of Ejigbo Police Division, while controlling traffic at
Jakande Gate in Ejigbo, noticed some sort of commotion close to her traffic
point.
He said: “She (the traffic police officer) intervened
and discovered that a lady named Gift Michael, 24, was found with a suspected new
born baby. In her company was her 'madam', one Florence Nkem Douglas, 50, both
of Ijegun area of Isheri.
“They were about to be mobbed due to the alarm
raised by those who had been trailing the duo from their residence in Ijegun,
as the whole community had been suspecting them for long for being in the
business of buying and selling babies in their maternity clinic.
“The two women
were arrested and the baby rescued and taken to Ejigbo Divisional Police headquarters
where an in-depth investigation was conducted.
“The Investigation revealed that the said Douglas,
a native of Igueben in Edo State, who is not a registered nurse, operates two
maternity clinics-Flofidel Clinic and Maternity Homes with branches in 182 Shosanya
Street, Ijegun road and Okunola Ijagemo areas.
“On interrogation, Mrs. Douglas admitted to have
been in the business of baby sales for a while.
“She revealed that a baby girl is referred to as ‘PINK’
while a baby boy is called ‘BLUE’, and are both referred to as ‘MARKET.
Mrs. Douglas further confessed that the male baby
found in their custody at Jakande Gate was brought to her from Gombe State
enroute Akure, Ondo State, and was to be sold for N500, 000.”
The rescued baby, who appeared ill with symptoms
suspected to be jaundice, was promptly taken to the hospital for medical
attention.
Elkana said worthy of mention are pictures of about 50 different babies in the
phone of the suspect suspected to have already been sold off, which she disclosed
that such babies are usually sold between N500,000.00 and N1million depending
on their sex.
The police PRO noted that the state Commissioner of
Police, Zubairu Muazu, has already ordered the State Criminal Investigation
Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, to take over the investigation and ensure that
other members of the syndicate are apprehended.
In another development, the Ejigbo Police Division
also arrested a pastor, David Daniel, for allegedly indecently and sexually
assaulting one Joy Muriyaro in the guise of conducting religious deliverance on
her.
The suspect was said to have gone to the victim’s
shop, claiming that he saw a vision where she had a spiritual problems and has
foreseen her having fibroid growth in her womb in the future.
He collected N3,050 cash from her and a bottle of perfume worth N1,000 for the said
spiritual deliverance, after which he urged her to take off her clothes for him
to rob anointing oil on her buttocks.
She became apprehensive when she noticed that the
suspect was allegedly masturbating when robbing the anointing oil on her
buttocks.
Elkana said the suspect, who was arrested and
charged to court for sexual assault, has been remanded in Kirikiri Prison.
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