Operatives of Amotekun corps have arrested a 30-year-old father, Daniel Chigozie for allegedly selling his nine-month-old son, Daniel Chinonye Darlington to three different buyers.
Chigozie, a resident of Abela in Sango Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State had serially traded his son to three different buyers at different locations in Sango, Meiran and Apapa area of Lagos.
Commandant of the Amotekun Corps in Ogun State, David Akinremi, said the security agency got intelligence that the father was selling the little boy .
According to Akinremi, the father was allegedly paid N150,000, N400,000 and N700,000 respectively from unknown buyers between August 2022 and February 2023.
Akinremi said an investigation conducted by the corps revealed that the man, who is suspected to be working with a criminal syndicate had devised a means through which the son was retrieved from each of the buyers after each sale until he sold him to the last buyer, one Dr. Nosa in Apapa.
The suspect in his statement confessed to the crime and is being profiled by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Humans for a follow-up investigation to recover the child and for prosecution.
