For allegedly selling his son for N450,000, Kanayo
Awurum, 29, has been arrested by the Lagos State
Police Command in Egbe, Ikotun area of Lagos state.
It was gathered that Kanayo, an indigene of Imo
State, allegedly sold the two-year-old boy, identified
as Samuel, to three middle-aged women ─ Nkechi
Obi, Cecilia Nwatu and Gladys Nwobodo ─ on
Thursday, April 2, 2015 after his friend, Emmanuel
introduced him to the women due to his complaint
of having some financial difficulties.
Kanayo, who worked as a painter, lied to his wife,
Kelechi, that one of the women was his relative in
Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and the boy was going to
live with her.
Speaking, Kanayo said he was advised by Emmanuel
to sell his child to the women for N450K, adding that
his plan was to stabilise his family with the money as
his wife was pregnant with another child.
He said, “I met Kelechi in our secondary school days
in 2005. It was in 2010 that we started living
together. In December 2012, she gave birth to
Samuel. We were then living in Owerri, Imo State. I
was working as a painter and also acted in movies. I
was an upcoming actor so I was not well paid.
“From 2014, I started to have financial difficulties,
and I wanted to come to Lagos to hustle. The idea to
sell my child came in March 2015 when I finally
decided to travel to Lagos. It was a friend,
Emmanuel, who linked me to the women. I asked
him to lend some money to me and he said I should
use what I had to get what I wanted.
“I did not tell my wife that I wanted to sell our child. I
lied to her that one of the women who came was my
elder sister in Port Harcourt and our son was going
to stay with her. My wife did not like the idea, but I
convinced her that it was for our good.
“So, when we came to Lagos, we rented an
apartment on Oluwaseyi Street in the Egbe area of
Lagos. I was paid N450,000 for the boy. That was
what I used to pay for the rent.”
The mother of the child, Kelechi, 28, said it was
when she pestered Kanayo to bring her child home
for a visit and the boy was not brought by the
‘relative’ that she suspected a foul play and reported
her husband's friend and their landlord who
questioned him till he confessed. After which the
case was reported at the Ikotun Police Station and
later transferred to SARS.
One of the suspected buyers, Obi,was nabbed in
Port Harcourt while the two other suspected buyers
were arrested in Agbani area of Enugu State where
the baby was sold.
The baby, Samuel has been recovered by the police
last week Friday, and reunited with his mother,
Kelechi.
Mrs Nwatu, 42, who took the child to her house in
Enugu, said she planned to raise him as her child as
her biological son was disabled. She added that she
paid N650,000 for the boy.
She said, “I am a mother of three. I have two girls
and one boy, but my boy is deformed. He is about 10
years old. My husband did not know about it. I
wanted a male child desperately to bear the family
name. My boy has the Down syndrome. He could
not talk.”
The Police Public Relations Office, DSP Kenneth
Nwosu, confirmed the arrest, adding that
investigations were ongoing to get the fleeing
accomplice.

Wonders no go ever end 4 dis country....selling a 2yrs old child 450k na wa o

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this is not poverty it is stupidity in its highest form sold a child he can even kill that child because if the woman was to use the child for rituals it would not be a problem to him God have mercy on us wicked generation worst than Adam and Eve