Some women from Onireke market Ojo Lagos State, on Friday thronged Onireke Police station; to mob one of them and another woman nabbed by the police for allegedly selling a three-day-old baby.
The women, prevented by the police from entering the station, remained at the gate in the blazing sun, expressed awe in the involvement of fellow women in baby selling.
The traders, who vowed to deal with the women said in Lagos that, the duo committed crime against God and humanity and must be dealt with to serve as lesson to others.
One of their leaders, identified as Mama Dada, that kept narrating what transpired in the baby selling, said that, the mother of the three-day-old baby that was sold was putting up with an elder sister that sold in the market.
According to her, the baby’s mother got impregnated without any man claiming responsibility.
“The sister who has been telling the baby mother that they will sell the babe as they cannot cater for the baby sold the baby to another women identified as a soldier in the opposite Ojo Barracks same day the baby was delivered.
“The sister who accompanied the mother to the hospital where the baby was delivered took the child from the nurses before the mother regained herself from child birth and sold to the solider for N200, 000,” she said.
Mrs Beatrice Uzokwe, another seller in the market, who was among the mob at the station, corroborated with Mama Dada, saying the child’s mother raised alarm over the issue on Dec. 9.
uzokwe, added that, the police arrested the elder sister and went into search for the baby alongside the seller.
She said that, the buyer who had kept the baby for three days for situation to claim-down was identified by the first seller at the barracks gate as she was going to submit the baby to those that paid her a bigger amount.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the station, CSP Smith, who declined comment on the matter said that, the command would issue statement on it after investigation.
The atmosphere around the place was charged with multitude of women gathering and chanting war songs
