Human Trafficking: Anambra Police Arrest Couple With One Month Baby

Vigilant operatives of the Anambra state Police Command on Sunday arrested a couple with a trafficked one month old baby.

The couple, who were on their way from Lagos, were nabbed at the Bridge head, Onitsha with the baby. 

The development is contained in a statement released to newsmen on Tuesday by Force spokesperson, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu. 

According to the statement, the couple were travelling in a Luxury bus belonging to a popular transport company, name withheld, with the baby when a co-passenger observed that the mother could not breastfeed the baby despite its cry for food in the course of the journey.

Following the observation, the good samaritan put a call through to Anambra Police on its Control Room hotline in Awka which then relayed the information to the Police at Bridgehead in Onitsha.

Subsequently, operatives laid in wait for the luxury bus which they intercepted in the evening hours.

The couple and the baby were identified and brought down for questioning.

The couple confessed to buying the child from its mother in Ajah, Lagos for the sum of N30,000.

Police commissioner, CP Aderemi Adeoye, thanked the public spirited citizen for his humane conduct in giving the information that led to the rescue of the child and arrest of the couple.

He also commended Police Operatives for their vigilance and dedication to duty. 

He has since directed that the couple be handed over to the National Agency for Prohibition in Trafficking of Persons, NAPTIP, for further investigation and prosecution.

Meanwhile the baby has been handed over to the state ministry of Women Affairs