Police arrest woman who sold her sibling for just N410,000 

The men of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) have arrested a woman, identified as Blessing Okonkwo, age 24, who confessed to selling her three-year-old sibling, Friday Okonkwo, at the cost of N410,000 in Adamawa State.

According to report, Okonkwo, who blamed her action on the biting hardship in the country, was said to have tricked her mother and taken the kid on false pretence of enrolling him in a school in the city of Mubi, where she lived, some 40 kilometers away.

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She however sold him at a price of N410,000 to a buyer, one Efunaya Nabufe, age 35, who trafficked him to Enugu city in the southeastern state of Enugu.

“I used the proceed of the crime to buy a grinding machine so I can start a business and also gave my boyfriend N200,000 to buy items required for our tradition wedding,” Blessing said.