Friday, 29th March 2024
To guardian.ng
Search

Police Arrest Bayelsa Perm Sec For Offering To Buy Newborn Baby

By Olusegun Julius, Yenagoa
05 February 2016   |   11:55 pm
A SPECIAL team of the anti-vice squad of the Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested a serving Permanent Secretary in the State Civil Service (names withheld) for offering to buy a baby delivered in his hospital for N200, 000. The Permanent Secretary, a practicing medical doctor and owner of a hospital within Yenagoa Council, was arrested…

Gunmen-kill-five-policemen

A SPECIAL team of the anti-vice squad of the Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested a serving Permanent Secretary in the State Civil Service (names withheld) for offering to buy a baby delivered in his hospital for N200, 000.

The Permanent Secretary, a practicing medical doctor and owner of a hospital within Yenagoa Council, was arrested on Thursday following a complaint from the mother of the newborn baby.

The 24-year-old mother of the baby, Nnenna Lawrence, it was learnt, had gone to the hospital eight months into her pregnancy ‎and attempted to secure the service of the government official to abort the pregnancy.

Though the official was said to have declined, due to the risk involved, he was alleged to have offered N200, 000 for a female baby and N250, 000 for a baby boy if delivered.

As a proof of seriousness, he was alleged to have given the expectant mother the sum of N27, 000 to seal the deal and enable her feed well to have a safe delivery without complications.

Trouble, however, started when the Ebonyi State-born lady delivered a baby boy and decline to sell the baby as earlier agreed.

The suspect was reportedly adamant and held on to the baby, which prompt the lady to file a complaint at the Igbogene Division ‎of the Nigeria Police, whose investigators swung into action and arrest her.

Attempts to speak with the suspect and management of the hospital prove abortive, but a man who claimed to be a worker at the hospital denied the allegation.

He said: “The perm sec or doctor was only trying to help by taking the baby to the state Welfare Department.”

He declined comment when asked if he know whether money was involved in the process.

Contacted on the development, spokesman of the state Police Command, Asimin Butswat, confirmed the development and said investigation was ongoing to verify the claims of the mother of the newly born baby.

According to Butswat: “On the 4/2/2016 (February 4, this year), about 1000hrs (10a.m.), one Nnenna Florence, ‘f’ of Igbogene Community, reported to the Police that she delivered a baby on the 3/2/2016 (February 3, this year) at Survival Hospital, Igbogene, Yenagoa.

0 Comments