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The Adamawa State Police Command has apprehended 2 female suspects for alleged conspiracy, stealing and selling 4 years old boy known as Friday Okonkwo.
The female suspects arrested apprehended include Blessing Okonkwo, 24 years old and Efunaya Nabufe, 35 years old who reside Mubi North LGA, Adamawa state.
Both accused confessed to the crime while being interrogated by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje on Thursday.
Earlier, SP Nguroje disclosed that the mother of the boy, Hauwa Lawan who lives at Rimirgo in Askira Uba LGA, Borno state reported the stealing of her son to the police on the 2nd July, 2024.
Blessing, who is an elder sister to Friday met their mother at Rimirgo sometimes last year and pleaded with her to release her younger brother to her so as to enroll him in school in Mubi since there is no standard school in Rimirgo.
Hauwa released the boy to her being her first daughter unknown to her that her daughter had concluded negotiations with Efunaya on how sell the boy to her.
In the course of negotiations, Blessing was said to have deceived Efunaya that Friday is her child and that she was impregnated while in Secondary School and gave birth to him.
She left with the boy to Mubi and sold him at the sum of N410,000 to Efunaya who later took the boy to Enugu State as both of them confessed to the police.
During interrogation, Blessing informed the PPRO that she had used the money and bought grinding machine, handset and gave her fiance the sum of N200,000.
The PPRO stated that investigation is ongoing as ordered by the Commissioner of Police, Morris Dankombo, assuring that the suspects will be charged to court upon completion of investigation. The News Platform.
Muhammad Tukur
