A 40-year-old man, Appolos Ndubuisi, has been arrested by the police for allegedly selling a baby boy for N350,000 after deceiving the mother that the baby died during delivery in Abia state.
Ndubuisi was alleged to have conspired with one Rose Godwin Chinweikpe, who operates a maternity home at Owoahia-Afor community in Obingwa council, to sell the baby while he told the mother, Deborah Onukaogu, that the baby was a stillbirth.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mrs Janet Agbede, told newsmen in Umuahia, Abia state capital that in 2020 Onukaogu became pregnant for Ndubuisi, a native of Umuariaga village in Ikwuano council area of the state.
According to CP Agbede, Onukaogu confessed to the Police that Ndubuisi never performed the traditional or Christian marriage rites to make her his legally married wife.
