The Akwa Ibom Police Command at Ikot Akpanabia, near Uyo, the state capital, has arrested and detained a middle aged man, Gabriel Okon Ekpiri, from Ekit Itam
Akpanobong community in Itu Local Government Area, for allegedly trading off his nine-year-old son for N400,000.
The suspects, according to the Police Public Relations Officer , SP Odiko MacDon, who spoke to LEADERSHIP yesterday, will soon be arraigned in Court, as the whereabouts of the child sold to an unidentified buyer in the state, could not be ascertained, even as he assured that “the perpetrators would be apprehended and made to face the law.”
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