A mother of two-month-old baby, Comfort Effiong has confessed that she sold the baby to a 51 year old Rose Edward for N450,000 because there was no one to take care of her and the baby.
“I sold the baby because of help. I don’t have anybody to help me. My father is late and my mother is sick and I don’t have anybody to help me.”
Comfort made the confession to the police today, Saturday, in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, where she was paraded, along with the buyer, before news men.
This was even as the buyer, Rose, also confessed that she bought the baby because she needed a baby of her own.
The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Murtala Mani, speaking through the state police Command’s spokesperson, ASP Cordelia Nwanwe, assured the people of the state that the command would not relent in its effort to curb crime.
He asked members of the public who wish to adopt children to follow due process. [myad]
