Olaide Adekunle, a 33-year-old lady from Ogun State, sold her 18-month-old child for 600,000 to pay off a debt.

The woman was detained as a result of a complaint submitted by the woman’s husband, Nureni Rasaq, to the Sango police division, according to the Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who revealed this to newsmen on Monday.

According to the husband, who was cited by Oyeyemi, the wife traveled to Lagos with their infant daughter, Moridiat Rasaq, in March but didn’t bring her back.

According to him, the husband stated further that all efforts to know what happened to the baby proved abortive as the woman was unable to give any reasonable account of the baby’s whereabouts.

Oyeyemi said the DPO Sango division, Dahiru Saleh, immediately detailed his detectives to arrest the suspect.

He said during the interrogation, the suspect confessed to have sold the baby for N600,000.

“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she has sold the baby to someone in Lagos at the rate of six hundred thousand naira (N600,000).

“When asked the reason for her action, she stated that she borrowed money from a microfinance bank, and when she was unable to pay back the money, the bank agents started dragging her and threatening to deal decisively with her. It was consequence upon this that she ran to Lagos and started hawking sachet water.

“It was while hawking that she met a man who introduced her to the woman that eventually bought the child in Lagos,” Oyeyemi quoted the suspect to have said.

He said the acting Commissioner of Police, DCP Babakura Muhammed, had directed that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and possible recovery of the baby.