If you think you have seen it all with certain things, then you probably need to view them from another angle. Such is the case of Ngozi Eze, a mother who had just given birth and attempted to sell the baby.
After she was arrested by the Edo State police Command, Ngozi confessed to the crime and explained the reason behind her action.
According to her, she was suffering and has no hope of making an end meet. And as such, she decided to use what she has to get what she doesn’t have. And the only thing she can use to bail herself out of her predicament is her newborn baby. And she decided to put him up for sale for a whooping sum of two milion naira.
Narrating how she was arrested, the Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Police command, Chidi Nwabuzor said Ngozi had called the doctor of the hospital where she put to bed and requested to see him for a meeting.
During the meeting, she disclosed to the doctor she wanted to sell her baby. Asked why she was taking such a drastic decision, she said she was suffering and has no means of survival.
The doctor however excused her briefly and put a call through to the nearest divisional police station to the hospital. A police team was drafted into the venue and she was consequently arrested. She was breastfeeding the baby when she was arrested by the police.
The baby was recovered from her and kept in the police station. According to the police spokesperson, the baby is just two weeks old and she decided to sell him for a sum of 2 million naira.
Ngozi’s case is just one out of many cases of people who have taken to the selling if their children to raise money and survive.
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