In Isiala Ngwa, Abia State, a 35-year-old man identified as Nkemakolam Ugorji, and his wife, Happiness sold their two-day-old baby girl for N300, 000 on stance of economic hardship.

When I was pregnant, there was no money for me to go for antenatal and feeding was even a problem for us. That was why we decided to sell our baby.” She added that it was the nurse who delivered her of the baby that connected them to the lady who helped them to sell the baby for the sum of N300, 000.

Their accomplice in the crime, Nma, said the couple had approached her to help them adopt the baby to a foster parent who could take care of the baby. Nma said she invited one pastor who had lived with his wife for 28 years without any child, to adopt the baby and the pastor adopted the baby for N300, 000.