Couple arrested in calabar for selling their daughter for N400,000

The Cross River Police Command on
Wednesday arrested a couples for allegedly selling their six-year-old daughter for N400,000. For now, the names of the couple were withheld.


The couple were paraded before journalists, Hafiz Inuwa, the state Commissioner of Police, said the suspects were arrested at Ikom Local
Government area on April 26 following a tip-off.

Mr Inuwa stated that the couple sold the child to enable them to pay off their house rent and open up a small provision shop.

“On April 26, 2017, following a tip-off, our men arrested a couple, George-Sunday Udoh and his wife Victoria, for allegedly selling their daughter at the cost of N400,000.

“The suspects were arrested by our operatives attached to the Ikom division.

“The case has been transferred to State
Criminal Investigation and Intelligence
Department here in Calabar and investigation is on-going,” he said.

The father of the child has however denied the report that he sold his child in an interview with the News Agency
of Nigeria.

“It is true that we don’t have money and things are very hard with me and my wife, but we did not sell our baby for N400,000,” he said.