The Lagos StatePolice Command has
arrested four women Fausat Ogidan,
Abibat Oresanya, Bola Obajuruwa and
Idiyat Abass on Sunday, June 6, after a
tip-off for allegedly abducting and
selling a nine-year-old girl, identified
simply as Blessing, for N650,000.
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. Punch correspondent
gathered that the 51-year-old woman,
who is married with four children, had
arranged to sell the girl and on that
Sunday.
Further investigations revealed that
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.
Ogidan, Oresanya, Abass and
Obajuruwa
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