Women abduct 9-year old girl, sell her for N650,000 in Lagos(Photo)

The Lagos State Police Command has
arrested four women for allegedly
abducting and selling a nine-year-old girl,
identified simply as Blessing, for N650,000.
The women are Fausat Ogidan, Abibat
Oresanya, Bola Obajuruwa and Idiyat
Abass.

According to Punch, Ogidan, who was with
the nine-year-old girl, and collected the
sum on behalf of others, was arrested in
the Gbagada area of Lagos.The 51-year-old
woman, who is married with four
children, had arranged to sell the girl and
on that Sunday.The girl was given to
Ogidan by Obajuruwa, commonly known
as Iya Alaje, who lives in the Suberu
Street, Alakuko area of Lagos.
Iya Alaje also confessed that she had told
Ogidan to sell the girl for N350,000 before
she was caught.

She said,
“I used to sell herbs in the Agege
Market. I told Fausat (Ogidan) to sell
the girl forN350,000, but Fausat added
N300,000 as her own profit. The girl
was sold to me by Idiyat (Abass) and
her elder sister, Abibat.“I bought her
from them for N130,000. They said
they were going to give the money to
the girl’s mother who wanted to get
rid of her because of poverty.”
Obajuruwa, when arrested, had led the
police to Abass and Oresanya, who got the
girl from her parents and connived to sell
her.
Our correspondent further learnt that
Abass, a 48-year-old woman, who was
living in the Salau Dogo Street, Ibafo area
of Ogun State, had obtained the girl from
her mother, who the police said was still
at large.

It was gathered that Oresanya claimed that
Blessing’s mother had wanted to dispose of
her and use the money obtained to take
care of her other children.However, during
interrogation, Blessing, who said her real
name was Yetunde, told the police that she
was kidnapped from their residence in
Ibadan.

A relative, who identified herself simply as
Funmi, claimed that Obajuruwa gave out
Blessing, who was her grandchild, to a
customer to assist in home chores.
She said,
“There are about seven to eight
children in this house. They are all
Iya Alaje’s grandchildren. So, it
happened that when one of her
customers put to bed recently.

She pleaded with mama to give her someone to assist her. Iya Alaje took Blessing, her seven-year-old granddaughter, to be staying with her.

The second day, Blessing ran away
from that house, and told the people
who saw her that she had been
kidnapped by the customer.
“That was why the police arrested
mama and the customer, saying they
kidnapped the girl.”

Our correspondent learnt that
investigations were ongoing at the SARS on
the matter.