Four Arrested For Selling 3-Yr-Old Boy, Attempt To Kill His Mother

Four persons have been detained by the Delta State Police Command
officers on suspicion of cultism, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy.

Four suspects have been accused of selling a three-year-old boy for
N850,000 and attempting to kill his mother, Miss Favour Ifowe.

The perpetrators included Miss Favour Ifowe's boyfriend, Prince
Josiah, an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
(NSCDC) serving in Abia State, a self acclaimed medical doctor and a
woman alleged to be the buyer of the stolen child.

It was gathered that all of them conspired to kill a young mother
after the child was sold. Luckily for the 23-year-old lady the deadly
act was avoided as the police nabbed the offenders and took them to
GRA Police Station in Asaba for further investigation.

As it turned out later Favour Ifowe and her son, Ezra, who suffers
from a pile-related ailment, were lured by Prince Josiah from her home
town, Otor-Owhe in Isoko North Local Government Area to Asaba, under
the pretext of showing the boy to a woman who could cure the
hemorrhoids.

On getting to Koka Junction in Asaba, Ifowe met her boyfriend with two
other suspects and headed to a village in Abia State, where the boy
was sold to an unnamed woman. Four suspects are in custody while the
investigation continues.