‘My Mother Sold My Baby To Child Traffickers For $1,600′

A woman in Cross River state has been arrested by the police after her daughter reported her for selling her baby or N253,000(about $1,600) Miss Ndidi Nkwegu, alleged that her mother sold her baby daughter to a child trafficker, who has also been nabbed, in the neighbouring Ebonyi state, after she sold the baby at a bigger price to another ‘baby business tycoon’ based in Abuja. “When I came back home and asked my mother for the whereabouts of my daughter, she couldn’t tell me anything reasonable.

 “I discovered that she had bought so many things which she never had before; actually, my mother was never happy with me when she discovered that I was pregnant, prior to my giving birth to my baby girl. “I had to call the police; my mother is now in police detention in Cross River State. “After interrogation, the police discovered that she was the one who sold my baby to a woman who is a child trafficker,” she told newsmen. The case blew open after the the Ebonyi State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) arrested four persons allegedly engaged in child trafficking. They were paraded Friday. Mrs Ego Echendu, the Commandant of NSCDC in Ebonyi, told a news conference at the NSCDC Headquarters in Abakaliki, said that the suspects were arrested on Thursday in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi.