How Man Trafficked His Wife, Sold 2-Year-Old Son In Ogun | READ DETAILS
Faith Ukanwa
May 20, 2022
How Man Trafficked His Wife, Sold 2-Year-Old Son In Ogun | READ DETAILS
A 36-year-old man, Kingsley Essien, have been arrested for allegedly trafficking his wife to Mali for pr0stitution and selling his 2-year-old son in Ogun state.
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According to a statement released by the Ogun State Police Command Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the man who sold his son for N600,000, was arrested following a report lodged at the Agbara divisional headquarters by his wife, Bright Essien.
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"Bright reported that sometime in October 2021, her husband, Kingsley Essien, informed her that he had secured a job for her in Bamako Mali, and that he had assisted many people to that country for greener pastures before.
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"She explained further that being her husband, she didn't suspect any foul play until she got to Mali only to discover that she had been sold to a human trafficker cartel headed by a woman at the rate of N1,400,000.
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"While in Mali, she was forced into pro-stitution, but later found her way to the Nigerian embassy in Bamako, where she was assisted back to Nigeria.
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"On getting to Nigeria, she discovered that her two-year-old son in care of her husband was nowhere to be found.
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"Upon the report, the DPO, Agbara division, SP Abiodun Salau, detailed detectives to go after the suspect, and he was eventually arrested.
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"On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime; he confessed further that he sold the two-year-old son to somebody at the rate of N600,000.ÔÇØ
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The police spokesman, however, said the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered that the buyer of the son must be traced and arrested.
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— Faith Ukanwa