Woman Buys Twins For 1.9m naira

The Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a 52-year old woman identified as Mrs. Olamide Bello for allegedly buying twin babies for N1.9 million.

Findings has it that the suspect who resides at 8, Adeniji Street, Meiran, a suburb of Lagos State, with her husband and step-children, told her husband, Mr. Wasiu Bello, that she was pregnant and that she has been instructed to go and deliver of the baby in Port Harcourt.

Mrs. Bello was alleged to have spent two weeks in Port Harcourt before returning to Lagos with twin babies, a boy and a girl, claiming that she gave birth to them.

Curious neighbours who never saw her with pregnancy prior to her trip to Port Harcourt alerted the police at due to their suspicions that the woman may have stolen the babies.

Sources said the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Alakuko Police Station, Mr. Musa Alimi, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, instructed some female detectives to investigate the allegation.

Police detectives were despatched to her residence to investigate the issue. She was taken to a hospital where test(s) were run on her which confirmed that she is not the biological mother of the babies.

At that point she had to confess that she bought the babies in Port Harcourt for N1.9 million.

The case has already been transferred to the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Smith Street, Panti, Lagos State.