Police officers holds arms to block supporters of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants from marching on the president’s official residence in Abuja on October 14, 2014. Some 276 girls were seized from their dormitories at the Government Girls Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, on the night of April 14. AFP PHOTO
Bauchi State Police Command has arrested three women suspected to be “specialists” in child trafficking.
DSP Haruna Mohammed, Public Relation Officer of the command, disclosed this yesterday in a statement made available to journalists in Bauchi.
He said the suspects were arrested by detectives of the command on Friday.
Mohammed, one of the suspects from Plateau State, was arrested for selling a 17-month-old baby to a woman from Imo State at the cost of N200,000.
He also said the woman also sold a 14-month-old baby to another woman, who hailed from Benue, at the cost of N80,000.
Haruna said the two babies have been recovered and that the mother of one, Fauziya Adamu, has been identified by the police, while efforts were being made to trace the mother of the other.
The spokesman said that the suspects would be charged to court for prosecution.
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