ustom Officer and Wife in Deep Trouble for Buying Twin Newborn Babies for N500,000

A customs officer and his wife have landed in Police net for purchasing a set of newly born twins for half a million naira. 
 
 
 

An officer of the Nigeria Customs Service simply identified as Azeez and his wife are currently in the custody of the Ogun State Police Command, for allegedly buying a set of 4 day-old twin babies for N500,000 in the Sango Ota, Ogun state.

Punch Metro gathered that the couple were arrested by the Sango Police Division last Thursday and the babies have since been recovered from them as the couple have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Command headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta.

A police source who craved anonymity said: “The incident happened last Thursday. The police got a tip-off that the couple had gone to Ibadan, Oyo State, to buy twin babies for N500,000. We then moved in on them and discovered it was true. 

The twins were just four days old on the day of the arrest. We have not seen the parents yet."

Azeez in his statement, said that he and his wife already had a child together but they had tried to have a second child for 23 years and so they decided to purchase the twins. The suspect told the police that he paid N500, 000 for the babies.

The babies were with the police until Friday, when they were transferred to Abeokuta.

The suspects were taken to the anti-kidnapping section of the SCID. The parents of the babies haven't shown up to claim them but the police said the babies are doing very fine

 

The Ogun State Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest. He added that investigations were still ongoing.