Quest Of Having A Child! Woman Buys Twins For N1.9m

The police in Lagos State, western Nigeria, have arrested a
52-year old woman identified as Mrs. Olamide Bello for allegedly buying twin
babies for N1.9 million.

According to, the suspect who resides at Adeniji Street,
Meiran, a suburb of Lagos State, with her husband and step-children, told her
husband, Mr. Wasiu Bello, that she was pregnant and that she has been
instructed to go and deliver of the baby in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State
capital in southern Nigeria.

Mrs. Bello was alleged to have spent two weeks in Port
Harcourt before returning to Lagos with twin babies, a boy and a girl, claiming
that she gave birth to them.

Curious neighbours who never saw her with pregnancy prior to
her trip to Port Harcourt alerted the police at 
Alakuko, alleging that they suspected that the woman may have stolen the
babies.

Sources said the Divisional Police Officer in charge of
Alakuko Police Station, Mr. Musa Alimi, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP,
instructed some female detectives to investigate the allegation.

P.M.News learnt that when Mrs. Bello was confronted by the
female detectives, she insisted that she gave birth to the twins and also
suggested the police should take her to a medical doctor to confirm her claim.

It was at the hospital that doctors confirmed that she is
not the biological mother of the babies.

At that point she had to confess that she bought the babies
in Port Harcourt for N1.9 million.

When her husband, Mr. Wasiu Bello, was arrested and
interrogated, he told the police that his wife told him that she was pregnant
and wanted to go and deliver of the baby in Port Harcourt.

He said he obliged only for her to come back with the babies
claiming she gave birth to twins.

He dissociated himself from the crime.