Mother sells her baby for N100,000

A 25-year-old wom­an, Sandra Ishaku, has been arrested by the Plateau State Police Command and arraigned at a Jos Upper Area court for allegedly selling her four-month-old baby for N100,000.Ishaku was arraigned along with three others identified as Amaechi Em­manuel, Jones Osim and Gladys Chukwuma.

They were charged with conspiracy, cruelty and child abandonment.

The police prosecutor, L. O. Ocho, Ishaku, told the court that on May 10, Isiaka sold her baby to Chukwuma for N100,000.

Ocho said that the transaction was carried out in Jos, in the chambers of Osim, a legal practitio­ner.

The prosecutor ex­plained, “Ishaku conspired with Emmanuel and sold her baby to Chukwuma, who had just relocated from Ebonyi State to Jos.”

The Presiding Judge, Yahaya Mohammed, did not take the plea of the ac­cused, but rather remand­ed three of them.

Ishaku, Emmanuel and Chukwuma were remand­ed in prison custody, while the matter was adjourned to June 1, when hearing would commence.

The judge granted bail to Osim after his counsel, Lawrence Anya, pleaded that he be released on bail to the Nigeria Bar Associa­tion (NBA), Plateau State chapter.