Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command's Quick Intervention Squad, QIS, apprehended one Gabriel Okon Ekpiri of Ekit Itam Akpan Obong in Itu Local Government Area, who sold his nine-year-old kid for N400,000, or $520. Mr Odiko MacDon, the state Police Public Relations Officer, revealed this in a statement made available to Uyo journalists.
Mr. Olatoye Durosinmi, the state Commissioner of Police, decorated two Deputy Commissioners of Police serving in the Command on Monday, according to MacDon.
"The two Deputy Commissioners of Police are DCP Baba Lawan Audu, Area Commander, Eket Area Command, and DCP Lawal Isa Mani, Department of Operations," he said.r-old son in Akwa Ibom for N400,000
"The CP, while conveying the sincere congratulations of the Inspector General of Police, Acting IGP Olukayode Egbetokun to the Officers, charged them to double their productivity capacity while playing their deputizing roles. "The ecstatic Senior Officers thanked the Police Service Commission, the Inspector General of Police for finding them deserving of promotion. They appreciated the CP for his hard work and fatherly disposition towards them and the Officers and Men.
“The CP noted that the act was barbaric and totally unacceptable. The Suspect who was arrested by the Quick Intervention Squad of the Command has confessed to the crime while blaming the devil and economic hardship for his actions.”
