43-year-old man arrested for stealing babay’s placenta
A 43-year-old man, Joshua Abraham, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State police Command for stealing a baby’s placenta.
Abraham was arrested following a report made by one Raliha Zakara, the grandmother of the baby at Ibafo police station, alleging the suspect who is her close neighbor came to the hospital where her daughter was delivered of the baby and pretended to be the father of the new baby.
It was alleged that the suspect demanded for the placenta
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According to the spokesperson for the Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi who confirmed the arrest of the suspect, when the grandmother got to the hospital and was informed that the suspect has taken away the placenta, she quickly confronted him, but he told the grandmother that he had buried it.
“ When the grandmother insisted that she should be taken to where he buried it, it was discovered that he had hidden the placenta but buried a dead rat. Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer, Ibafo Division, Abiodun Ayinde, a Superintendent of Police, detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested.
“ It was discovered that the suspect had once been arrested for defrauding a police officer and a pastor of huge sum of money under the pretence of procuring Canadian visa for them and the case is been prosecuted in court.
“ He has since taken the detectives to where he hid the placenta and it has been recovered. The Commissioner of police, CP Kenneth Ebrimson has also directed that a thorough investigation be carried out and that the suspect be charged to court as soon as possible, ” oyeyemi said.
