A man named Chinana Telpesa Solomom Tali has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Federal Capital Territory Command for attempting to sell his 8-year-old son, Ushafa Tali, for N20 million.
On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at the Command headquarters, the suspect and his accomplice, Pius Aondoakaa, were paraded by the FCT Commandant, Olusola Odumosu.
Odumosu claims that on January 10, 2024, members of the command’s intelligence section detained Tali and Aondoakaa for plotting to sell Ushafa.
“Through their proactive engagements in January 2024, the ardent and astute intelligence personnel of the FCT Commands intercepted a father who was planning to trade an eight-year-old boy, whom he claimed to be his child, for the sum of twenty million naira in the FCT,” the Commandant said.
“As soon as there was a tip, the suspects were put under observation. In an attempt to make a bigger offer, one of the suspects, Pius Aondoakaa, turned down a 12 million naira bid and was seeking 20 million naira for a “He-goat,” or a boy child.
“He also made a 15 million Naira offer for a “she-goat,” or girl child. Pius stated that he had a male child for sale and that the boy’s father intended to utilize the sale money to support his other children.
In light of this, on January 10, 2024, the boy’s well-known father, Mr. China Telpesa Solomon Tali, was enticed to Abuja by FCT Intelligence Personnel, who pretended to be a buyer and came to an agreement to purchase and pay the price of 20 million naira.
The undercover agents who pretended to be the buyer met him and his son in a garden. Following the completion of the sale for twenty million naira, police arrived, took the father, Mr. Chinana Tali, 42, of Logo LGA, Benue State, into custody, and retrieved the eight-year-old son, Ushafa Tali.
Upon receiving the suspects, Oseafiana Chineyere, a representative of NAPTIP, declared, “NAPTIP will investigate this matter and the result will be positive.”
