Nigerian police arrests Doctor for selling a new born baby (#35,000).

MEN of the Ogun State police
command have nabbed a
syndicate who sold a day-old
baby for N35,000 in a deal
that was masterminded by
the operator of an
unregistered maternity home
in Ogere Remo.

The doctor and those who
aided him were now helping
the police in unravelling the
mystery surrounding the
disappearance of a baby born
in the maternity on June 18
and declared missing the
following day. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the baby, delivered by Mrs Omotayo Badmus, was
said to have fallen sick and
needed to be taken to the
Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching
Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, for treatment on June 19.

The mother of the baby was
accompanied on the trip by
two of the nurses from the
maternity home. The mother was said to have left the baby in the custody of the two nurses to look for N5,000 demanded as deposit
in OOUTH, but when she got
back to the hospital, the
nurses had disappeared with
her baby. She returned to the
maternity in Ogere, thinking
that the nurses had paid for
the treatment, only to be told
that the whereabouts of the
baby was unknown.
A source told the Nigerian

Tribune that the doctor told
the woman that the baby had
died, a statement that
elicited a demand for the
corpse, which could not be
produced.
The case was reported at the
divisional police headquarters in Ogere, weeks after the syndicate had tried to sweep the case under thecarpet.

When quizzed, the doctor,
whose competence had been
called to question by his
inability to produce
certificates of registration
and practice, told the police
that the mother of the baby
had confided in him that her
husband was not responsible
for the baby and solicited his
assistance in concealing the
secret. The doctor said he, therefore, contacted another maternity home, also in Ogere, for a link to a motherless babies' home, following which the baby was taken to Ibafo and the doctor given N35,000 for his services.

Efforts to get further
confirmation from the state
Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), Mr Muyiwa
Adejobi, were unsuccessful,
as he told the Nigerian
Tribune that he was in a
meeting with the state
commissioner of police,
while the text message sent
afterward was unanswered.
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