Man Planning To Sell 8-Year-Old Son For N20m Arrested In Abuja

Chinana Tali ,who was planning to sell his eight-year-old son for N20m,  has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Abuja.

  Team@orientactualmags.com learned that FCT Commandant, NSCDC,  Olusola Odumosu,  who disclosed this on Tuesday, said  Chinana Tali was arrested on January 10, 2024, for planning to sell Ushafa Tali while naming Pius Aondoakaa as his accomplice.

 ‘The FCT Commands’ ardent and astute intelligence personnel in their proactive engagements in January 2024, intercepted a father who conspired with another to trade an eight- year- old boy who he claimed to be his child for the sum of 20 million naira in the FCT.

Following a tip-off, the suspects were immediately placed under surveillance. One of the suspects, Pius Aondoakaa in a quest for a higher bid rejected the sum of 12 million naira and was looking for 20 million naira for a ‘He-goat’ meaning a boy child.

He also offered a ‘she-goat’ (i.e. girl child) for 15 million Naira. Pius claimed to have a  small boy  for sale and that the father of the boy wants to use the proceeds of the sale to take care of his other children’ the commandant said.

‘In view of this, the  man who claimed  to be the father of the boy, Mr. China Telpesa Solomon Tali was lured into Abuja on January 10, 2024, by an FCT Intelligence Personnel who posed as a buyer and agreed on the terms to buy and pay the sum of 20million naira.

He was received at a garden with his son by the undercover personnel who posed as the buyer. The transaction was concluded for the sum of twenty million naira after which officers moved in and arrested the father, Mr. Chinana Tali, male, 42 years old of Logo LGA ,Benue state and rescued the little eight-year-old boy, Ushafa Tali.

The  second suspect, Pius Aondoakaa, male, 29 years old, Logo LGA , Benue state who had connived with the father of the boy was also arrested on January 12, 2024. Both suspects are Tiv by tribe and from a village called R.C.M Abeda Mbadyul in Logo LGA’ he added.

Odumosu also noted that  the suspects  would be handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons for further investigation, and prosecution while the boy would be reunited with his mother.

‘Economic hardship pushed me into agreeing to sell my son for 20 million naira to train the remaining five of my children’ Tali told journalists on Tuesday while the NAPTIP representative, Oseafiana Chineyere has promised that necessary steps would be taken.

 ‘NAPTIP will investigate this matter and the result will be positive’ Oseafiana  said-Team@orientactualmags.com
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