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Suspect says she sold newborn twins for N300,000 and stole other children for baby-trafficking network

From Premium Times · () English

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  • Oyo State police arrested Adejoke Popoola, who investigators say admitted selling her newborn twin boys for N300,000 and supplying other children to suspected baby-trafficking operators.
  • Popoola allegedly told investigators that she stole at least 13 children and received between N80,000 and N120,000 for each child, including a three-year-old taken during an Egungun festival.
  • She said a suspected network supplied children to buyers in Lagos, while police continue a crackdown on child stealing and trafficking in the state.

A 50-year-old woman arrested in Oyo State has told investigators that she sold her newborn twin boys for N300,000 and stole other children for suspected baby-factory operators.

God gifted me pregnancies. If a man has sex with me two times, I won’t be able to abort it. I sold children to Oluwakemi two times. I sold a one-year-old son and I sold newly born male twins to her last year.

· Adejoke PopoolaThe suspect described selling children, including her newborn twins, to a woman she identified as Oluwakemi.

The suspect, Adejoke Popoola, also known as Orente Alagbo, said in a video posted by Oyo Affairs that she had stolen at least 13 children. She alleged that operators paid her between N80,000 and N120,000 for each child she supplied.

Popoola said she became involved after meeting a woman named Oluwakemi, whom she described as running a “baby industry” that supplied children to buyers in Lagos. “God gifted me pregnancies. If a man has sex with me two times, I won’t be able to abort it. I sold children to Oluwakemi two times. I sold a one-year-old son and I sold newly born male twins to her last year,” she said.

The twins are male. I sold them newly born. She gave me N300,000.

· Adejoke PopoolaPopoola described the sale of her newborn twin boys.

She said the twins’ father refused to accept them, prompting her to sell them. She also described stealing a three-year-old boy, Ifakunle Ifagbenro, during an Egungun festival in June. Popoola said she offered to carry the child for his mother, then ran away with him in the evening. She alleged that she received N900,000 for the boy.

Around evening, I ran away with the child.

· Adejoke PopoolaShe described taking a three-year-old child during an Egungun festival.

Popoola further claimed that she sometimes targeted families with children with disabilities, offering to help them before exchanging their children. She said she had previously sold herbs and entered the alleged network after her shop burned down in January 2024. According to her account, operators later urged her to steal babies for them, paying N80,000 for the first child and between N80,000 and N120,000 thereafter.

Later they told me that instead of me suffering around, I should be stealing babies for them.

· Adejoke PopoolaPopoola said operators recruited her after her herb shop burned down.
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Originally published by Premium Times in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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