{"id":166199,"date":"2019-11-07T18:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166199"},"modified":"2019-11-07T18:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:56:48","slug":"nscdc-man-arrested-for-attempting-to-sell-son-for-n5m-in-nassarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=166199","title":{"rendered":"NSCDC: Man arrested for attempting to sell son for N5m in Nassarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Another-torture-center-discovered-in-Kaduna.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a 42-year-old suspect for attempting to sell his three-year-old son in Lafia.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Mahmoud-Fari, State Commandant of the NSCDC told newsmen on Thursday in Lafia that the man was arrested on Tuesday following a sting operation by the officers of the command, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mahmoud-Fari, the man, who hailed from Obi Local Government Area had concluded plans to sell his son for N5 million.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cOur undercover officers got wind of his plan and opened negotiation with the suspect who offered to sell the son for N5 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe opted to collect the money in cash and it was in the process that we arrested him in Lafia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NSCDC boss said an investigation revealed that the man has five wives and 23 children, out of which he had already sold a daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the suspect confessed to the crime and attributed his action to economic hardship, saying he resorted to selling his son to enable him take care of the family.<\/p>\n<p>The commandant also presented to the newsmen a 45-year-old man arrested for allegedly defiling his neighbour\u2019s 10-year-old daughter at Al-Makura Street in Lafia.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmoud-Fari said the suspects would be prosecuted accordingly.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a 42-year-old suspect for attempting to sell his three-year-old son in Lafia. Mohammed Mahmoud-Fari, State Commandant of the NSCDC told newsmen on Thursday in Lafia that the man was arrested on Tuesday following a sting operation by the officers of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,10844,2147],"class_list":["post-166199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-civil-defence","tag-nasarawa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}