DEJI LAMBO FROM PUNCH
A non-governmental organisation, Women Advocates’ Research and Documentation Centre, has petitioned the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person to intervene in the disappearance of a newborn at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro had reported that a policeman attached to the formation, Samuel Ukpabio, allegedly took the child from his mother, Fortune Obafuoso.
The aggrieved mother said on Friday, December 23, 2022, when she was delivered of her baby, the policeman arrested her alongside the newborn to the SCID on the allegation that she wanted to sell the baby, a claim she denied.
The 35-year-old noted that Ukpabio, while interrogating her at the SCID, forcefully took her baby and handed him over to a yet-to-be-identified woman from a ministry in the state.
The cop gave her N185,000 and threatened her not to return for the baby.
The state police spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the policeman and two other women were arrested over the matter.
The Founding Director, WARDC, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, said her organisation petitioned NAPTIP because of the circumstances surrounding the baby’s disappearance.
