A grandmother has been arrested by the Abia police
command on Tuesday for allegedly selling her three-year-old grandson to a
ritualist.
DSP Udeviotu Onyeke, the command’s spokesperson, in a chat
with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), explained that that the woman had
been remanded in Umuobiakwa as investigation continues.
He revealed that they were trying to determine the sanity of
the woman who is said to hail from Onitsha Ngwa in Obingwa Local
Government of the state.
She had left the village with the child and returned a week later to
report that he was missing, and sources in the village disclosed that it
was her response during the questioning that triggered suspicion over
the boy’s whereabouts.
The woman whose name has not been revealed, allegedly told the police
that she sold the boy for N100, 000 to a native doctor in Akwa Ibom to
buy a motorcycle before end of the year.
She has since changed her statement, claiming that the boy was with
her sister in Aba, but the police have vowed to unravel the mystery the
whereabouts of the three-year-old boy.
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