HUSBAND CONVINCED WIFE TO SELL OWN CHILD TO FUND JAPA RELOCATION TO ABROAD

By Olayiwola Ibrahim // The Nigerian Police Force have areested a 28-year-old man, Uchenna Eziekwe, and his wife, Chineye, in Lagos for allegedly attempting to sell their two year old baby.

Report indicates that the couple planned to use the proceeds from selling their child to relocate to Canada in search of a better life.

The couple was apprehended by officers from the Isolo Divisional Police Station following a tip-off from the management of Isolo General Hospital.

Uchenna and Chineye had reportedly expressed their intention to sell their baby boy at the hospital.

The hospital staff alerted the police after initially agreeing to the couple’s request.

The couple cited the severe economic hardship in the country as the reason for their actions and pleaded for forgiveness.

It was a difficult decision, but we had no choice but to sell our baby.

We felt it would be better to sell him to someone who can take care of him than to allow him to die of hunger, Uchenna told journalists.

He admitted, the idea was mine, siting that he had to convinced his wife, though it wasn’t easy, during his parade at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja.

Lagos State Police spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, who paraded the suspects, said, on Tuesday, around 2:45 pm, the Divisional Police Officer DPO in charge of Isolo Police Station received information that a couple went to Isolo General Hospital and declared their intention to sell their baby boy.

Upon receipt of the information, operatives from the station moved swiftly to the hospital, where Uchenna Eziekwe, 28, and Chineye Eziekwe, 22, were about to sell their child.

The baby, a little boy aged 2, was rescued. Upon interrogation, the couple stated that they decided to sell the baby to enable the man to travel to Canada for a greener pasture, Hundeyin said.