Man in police custody for selling infant son to multiple buyers at different prices

Amotekun Corps operatives in Ogun State have arrested a 30-year-old man, Daniel Chigozie, for allegedly selling his nine-month-old son to three different buyers.

According to David Akinremi, Commandant of the Corps, the agency received intelligence that the father had serially traded his son, Daniel Chinonye Darlington.

The suspect, a resident of Abela in Sango Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, was paid N150,000, N400,000, and N700,000 respectively by unknown buyers between August 2022 and February 2023 for the sale of his son.

Investigations revealed that Chigozie 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.

Upon arrest, Chigozie admitted to committing the crime and is being profiled by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for follow-up investigations to recover the child and prosecute the suspect.

The Commandant of the Amotekun Corps has called on the public to provide intelligence that could help the agency to rescue the child and apprehend other members of the criminal syndicate.