Kingsley Essien, 36, was arrested by authorities for reportedly selling his wife and two-year-old son for ₦2 million.
According to authorities in Ogun State, the husband paid 1.4 million to smuggle his wife to Mali for prostitution and also sold their two-year-old son at the rate of ₦600,000.
Confirming the incident on Thursday, the Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed that Essien’s arrest followed a report lodged at the Agbara division by the wife, Bright Essien.
His wife reported to the police that her husband had sometime in October 2021, he lied that he had secured a job for her in Bamako, Mali, and that he had in the past assisted many to secure a job in Mali. Oyeyemi said,
“While in Mali, she was forced into prostitution, but she later found her way to the Nigerian embassy in Bamako where she was assisted back to Nigeria,”
“Upon the report, the DPO of Agbara division, SP Abiodun Salau, detailed his detectives to go after the suspect, and he was eventually arrested.
“On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the commission of the crime, he confessed further that he sold the two-year-old son to somebody at the rate of six hundred thousand Naira,” Oyeyemi added.
Nevertheless, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has directed that the man be moved to the Anti-human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the state CIID for investigation.
Lanre Bankole also directed the police officers to trace and arrest the buyer of the stolen so as to recovered.
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