The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a couple, Christiana Ibanga and her boyfriend, Inyene Akpan, for allegedly selling their child for N450,000 in 2024.
According to the police spokesperson, DSP Timfon John, the suspects were apprehended following a complaint from a woman who reported that Ibanga had lured her six-year-old daughter and taken her to an undisclosed location.
During interrogation, the couple confessed to selling their own child for N450,000 with the assistance of one Saviour Aniedi.
Further investigations revealed that Ibanga also conspired with Aniedi and his wife to steal the complainant’s daughter, who was later sold in Aba, Abia State, to an unidentified buyer.
The police have commenced an operation to track down the buyer and the child. Although the suspects in Aba remain elusive, the command assures the public that substantial progress has been made, and operatives are closing in on the perpetrators.
In a separate operation, the police arrested suspected illicit drug dealers, mostly women, and recovered weapons from them. The suspects were arrested after the operatives raided some blackspots in the state.
