For stealing a two-week-old baby, a Cameroonian couple has been arrested in Nigeria. 

The officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) rescued the baby from the Cameroonian couple, Kamsol Ayang, 44, and Theresa Asamoa, 46, in Calabar, Cross River State on Sunday.

Officials of the Nigeria Immigration Services met the couple at the Nfum control post in Etung LGA in Cross River State, where they noticed that the baby looked week and pale.

Cross River State’s Comptroller of NIS, Funke Adeuyi, said neither the baby’s eyes nor body was moving, a situation that sparked suspicion.

“The couple claimed to have been married for 15 years, and decided to leave Cameroon for Nigeria to take herbal drugs that would make her pregnant,” Adeuyi said.

“After searching their travel documents, we found out that their surnames did not tally although they claimed to have been married for 15 years. This gave room for suspicion.

“After further investigation, she told us that she was given herbal drugs that would make her pregnant and also claimed to have delivered and that the baby was given to her at the herbal medical clinic somewhere in South-West Nigeria.”

The baby is currently in the custody of NAPTIP.