Amid the ongoing economic hardship, a Nigerian man accused of attempting to sell his daughter for N1.5 million has been nabbed by operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command.
The suspect identified as Yusuf Umar, 49, on interrogation, claimed to be a staff of the Warji Local Government Area of the state.
Entrance of a Nigeria Police station
Police report says Umar had already arranged to hand over the five-year-old child to an unknown buyer, unaware that he was an undercover police detective.
“On the 26th of May 2024, the accused to the infant 5-year-old daughter from the estranged wife in Warji LGA under the pretence that he would take her to his sister in Bauchi town.
“Unknown to the mother, he had already arranged to hand the daughter to an unknown person not knowing that he is a police detective,” the Commissioner of Police in Bauchi, Auwal Mohammed, said.
He said the suspect was arrested in a hotel in Bauchi.
The police boss further announced that operatives also arrested four members of the professional hunters’ group for allegedly engaging in criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide after torturing a young man, named Jacob Ayuba, to death on allegations that he stole N150,000.
