A man known as Gabriel Okon Ekpiri, a native of Ekit Itam Akpan Obong community in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom state has been arrested by the state police command for selling his nine year old son for the sum of N400,000.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, informed in a statement on Monday night in Uyo, the state capital, said that the suspect was arrested through the Quick Intervention Squad , QIS, of the Command.
The police said that the offender had confessed to committing the crime and blamed it on the devil and the economic hardship in the country.
The statement read in part, “The Commissioner of Police Akwa Ibom State, Olatoye Durusinmi, has condemned the action of one Gabriel Okon Ekpiri of Ekit Itam Akpan Obong in Itu Local Government Area, who sold his nine year old son for N400,000.”
The CP described the act as barbaric and totally unacceptable in the society.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has decorated two Deputy Commissioners of Police DCP Baba Lawan Audu, Area Commander, Eket Area Command, and DCP Lawal Isa Mani, Department of Operations.
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