Perm Sec, nurse arrested over child trafficking

Serving Permanent Secre­tary in the Bayelsa State Civil Service (names withheld) and a nurse in a private hospital located in Igbogene, Yenagoa have are now in police net over an alleged attempt to buy a new born baby.
The incident is coming barely two weeks after police detec­tives from Akenfa police station arrested two women for selling a newborn baby for N300, 000.
Investigations revealed that the senior civil servant and the nurse were arrested by a special team of anti-Vice Squad of the State Police Command over al­leged attempts to buy a newborn baby for N200, 000.
Checks indicated that the se­nior civil servant who is also a practicing Medical Doctor is the owner of the hospital in which the baby was delivered.