A nurse, whose name was given as Mrs. Chibuzor Okoye has been arrested for allegedly selling a baby belonging to a 17- year-old girl, Miss Tessy Obianua, to a couple in Onitsha, Anambra State, for the sum of N500,000.
The Ondo State Commissioner for Police, Mrs. Hilda Ibifuro-Harrison, who paraded the nurse and the teenage mother at the Command Headquarters located on Igbatoro Road, Akure, said that five persons were involved in the case.
The police boss said that Tessy fell a victim of Mrs. Chibuzor Okoye, who convinced her to sell the baby to Mr. and Mrs. Sunday Kalu that were desperately looking for a baby.
She said the police got a tip about the matter when Tessy’s father, Mr. Henry Obianu, who lives at Ogbese in Akure North Local Government Area of the state, reported to the police that her daughter was missing with her pregnancy.
The police boss said that investigation was in progress and that the suspects would be charged to court soon. [myad]
