…Arrest Suspects Who Sold 3 Year Old Baby For 800 Thousand Naira
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye
Delta State Police Commissioner, Wale Abass, has appealed to members of the public to feed operatives of the command with reliable information that can help them fight crime in the state.
CP Abass made the appeal while reacting to the arrest of one Mohammed Isah, ‘m’ 35, who stole a 3 year old Abubakar Atiku at the Abraka Community in Asaba, headquarter of Delta State.
According to the Force image maker in the state, DSP Bright Edafe, one Aisha Yusuf ‘f’ had reported at the ‘C’ Division Asaba on June 13, 2023, that her son was stolen by the suspect Mohammed Isah. Acting on the complaint, the Commissioner of Police Delta state gave a marching order to the DPO ‘C’ Division Asaba, CSP Apu Torukeregha to go all out to arrest the suspect and rescue the stolen child.
According to DSP Edafe, the DPO in compliance with the directive, the led operatives of the division Anti-crime patrol team on a frantic search for the stolen child and acting on a tip-off, the team stormed Abraka market in Oshimili-South LGA, where the principal suspect Mohammed Isah was arrested. Upon interrogation, he confessed to the crime and led the operatives to arrest three other members of the child stealing syndicate namely; Ibrahim Sani ‘m’ (23), Kabiru Ibrahim ‘m’ (52) and Abubakar Mohammed ‘m’ a (32), a cripple.
Preliminary investigations revealed that they belong to a child trafficking syndicate that steal children and sell for a huge sum of money. The suspects led policemen to a hotel in Onitsha Anambra State where the team arrested one Suleiman Mohammed ‘m’ (38) in whose custody the missing child was found. The suspect arrested in Anambra stated that he was waiting for the supposed buyer of the said child, and they have agreed to sell the child for the sum of Eight Hundred Thousand Naira (#800,000).
The child has been reunited with the mother, while the suspects are in custody, and investigation is ongoing.
In another development, on June 12, 2023 at about 0800 hours, men of the “A’ Division Warri Anti-Crime Patrol team while on visibility patrol along the African Church road behind Daudu Police post, sighted a tricycle Reg No. BUR 240 VC conveying two male occupants heading towards their direction.
When the team accosted the tricycle for a routine search, the duo jumped out and escaped, and the team chased them but could not arrest them. When the search was carried out on the abandoned tricycle, one (1) locally fabricated cut-to-size pistol was recovered, exhibits in custody, while manhunt for the fleeing suspects is ongoing.