The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has accused three workers in Ogoja, Cross River State, of attempting to traffic their employer’s two-year-old for sale.
Oba Joseph, head of operations for the Cross River Command of NAPTIP, told the News Agency of Nigeria in an interview on Thursday in Calabar.
Mr Joseph said the agency received a call on Monday about the incident, which occurred in Ogberia Ochoro community, where three suspects allegedly took a two-year-old child while attempting to move him to another location for sale.
According to him, the suspects claimed they had worked for their employer for about three months without receiving their wages.
“They claimed they decided to traffic the child as revenge and to recover the money they said they were owed.”
