The Ogun State Police Command, have arrested a couple living on Unity Road, Masafote, in the Ibafo area for allegedly engaging in child trafficking
The suspects were identified simply as Morenike and Shittu.
According to reports , their neighbours became suspicious a few months ago when the woman would allegedly bring a child home in the evening and took the child away the following day.
She was said to have done so on four occasions before she was caught on Monday with a four-year-old girl, who was reportedly abducted in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Residents identified the landlady of the couple as Habibat Oresanya, sister of Shittu.
It was gathered that neighbours started to closely monitor Morenike after she brought in the four-year-old girl around 9pm on Sunday.
She had strapped the victim to her back and was leaving the neighborhood when a community leader, Chief Toyeeb Balogun, confronted her.
Balogun, who spoke with our correspondent, said he took her to the palace of Baale of Mosafote for questioning.
He said, “People have been saying that Iya Ahmed (Morenike) bring strange children into the community in the evening and take them away the following day.
“On Sunday, October 8, she came home with a girl of about five-year-old. The girl looked malnourished. The next day, she left home with her and did not return with her.
“After that incident, some neighbours reported to the baale and he told them to monitor her. Around 12pm on Monday, some residents came to tell me that they saw her leaving the community with another girl. I rushed to meet her and asked her who the girl was. She said she was her sister’s child in Egbeda.
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