COUPLE ARRESTED FOR USING CHILD AS COLLATERAL

“The police immediately swung into action and arrested the suspect. During interrogation; the suspect revealed that his wife was a party to the transaction. The duo are now in police custody to unravel the cause of this inhuman action and possible prosecution,’’ he said.

Penpushing reports that, the father of the child confessed that he gave out the child as collateral for N180, 000 to help him pay his house rent.

“I did it based on the debt of N21,000 I collected from a friend to pay my house rent.There is no work in this rainy season and I am jobless. A guy from my area informed me that he knows a woman who lends money to people’.

“That my friend told me that I can give out the child as collateral to get the money without necessarily selling him. The woman gave me N180,000 immediately after, she received the child. After that, my mother in-law came and asked me of the child and I lied to her that I took the baby to my brother for holiday,’’ he said.