Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta
Ogun State Police Command said it has arrested a 36-year-old man, Kingsley Essien at Agbara area of Ado-Odo/Ota local government for trafficking his wife to Mali for prostitution after which he allegedly sold their 2-year old son for N600,000.
According to statement from the Spokesman of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Kingsley was also alleged to have sold off his wife, Bright Essien to some human trafficking cartels in Mali for N1.4M.
The husband was also said to have in the name of searching for greener pastures urged his wife, Bright to go to Bamako, Mali only for her to get to Mali and discovered that her husband had actually sold her off to a human trafficking cartel for N1.4M and was subsequently forced into prostitution.
Kingsley was said to have been arrested after his wife reported the cruel act at Agbara divisional headquarters of the police.
Bright had said that sometimes in October 2021, her husband, Kingsley Essien, informed her that he had secured a job for her in Bamako Mali, and that he had assisted many people to that country for greener pastures in the past.
She explained further that since Kingsley is her husband, she suspected no foul play until she got to Mali only to discover that she had been sold to human trafficker cartel headed by a woman at the rate of One million four hundred thousand naira.
Bright explained further that while in Mali, she was forced into prostitution, but later found her way to Nigeria embassy in Bamako where she was assisted back to Nigeria.
She narrated further that on getting to Nigeria, she discovered that her two-year-old son left in the care of her husband is nowhere to be found.
Acting upon this report, the DPO Agbara division, SP Abiodun Salau was said to have detailed his detectives to go after the suspect, and he was eventually arrested.
On interrogation, Kingsley reportedly confessed to the commission of the crime, revealing that he sold the two-year-old son to somebody at the rate of six hundred thousand naira.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspect to anti human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.
He equally ordered that the buyer of the son must be traced and arrested in order to recover the stolen child.