I Sold My Baby To Pay Bank Loan – Mother
I Sold My Baby To Pay Bank Loan – Mother In a shocking revelation, a 33-year-old woman identified as Olaide Adekunle has been nabbed by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly selling her 18-month-old baby girl, Moridiat Rasaq, for a whopping N600,000.
The brazen act is said to be the result of the mother’s desperate measure to repay a hefty bank loan.
The story is one that has shocked the nation, with Nigerians still struggling to come to terms with how a mother could abandon the welfare of her child for mere cash.
The suspect was apprehended after her husband, Nureni Rasaq, reported the disappearance of the child at the Sango divisional headquarters.
He revealed that his wife left their residence on March 15, 2023, with the baby, but neither of them returned.
According to the command’s spokesperson, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Olaide Adekunle, upon interrogation, admitted that she sold her baby to a beneficiary in Lagos, and the transaction was worth N600,000.
Subsequent to what appears like a heartless act, the distraught mother narrated that she had borrowed money from a microfinance bank, but was unable to repay the loan, prompting the bank’s agents to threaten her.
Feeling overwhelmed, she ran to Lagos to sell sachet water to make ends meet, and it was during the process of hawking that she met a man who linked her to the buyer of the child.
The police have arrested Olaide Adekunle for her actions, and her case will undoubtedly spark conversation around the state of the nation’s economy and the harsh impacts of poverty-induced quests for survival.
Individuals, stakeholders and the government are all seeking justice for little Moridiat, who is now in safe hands.
