The operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a 49-year-old man for allegedly attempting to sell his five-year-old daughter for N1.5 million in the state.
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Bauchi State Commissioner of Police Auwal Muhammad disclosed this at a press conference in Bauchi on Thursday, May 30, 2024.
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Muhammad said the man, who claimed to be a staff of Warji Local Government Council, was arrested for alleged child trafficking.
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According to the police commissioner, the girl’s father went to take her from her mother, who had separated from him, on the pretext of taking her to his sister in Bauchi.
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Muhammad disclosed that the man committed the offence on May 26, but unknown to him, the supposed buyer of the child was a police detective.
“The defendant was arrested in a hotel in Bauchi after he bargained for N1.5 million to give up his biological daughter,” the CP said.
Muhammad added that the girl’s father also provided the person who linked him to a supposed buyer with N40,000.
He stated that the suspect would be charged to court upon the completion of an investigation into the offence.
