A six-year-old boy was saved from being sold by a kidnap syndicate by his tribal marks, the police in Imo have said.

Naziru Abdulwahab was kidnapped from Kaduna State by one Queen Imoh, a leader of a kidnap syndicate, and taken to Imo State where he was to be sold.

Imo was said to have, in the past, sold her son for N200,000 and another for N230,000 before she was arrested.

The spokesman of the Imo State Police Command, Orlando Ikeokwu, said operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, arrested the suspect on Wednesday after an alarm was raised by locals living around the area.

Ikeokwu said,

“On June 13, operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, acting on intelligence arrested one Queen Imoh, a native of Cameroon but residing in Kaduna, with a stolen child, one Naziru Abdulwahab, male aged six, at Umuna, Orlu.

“Queen stole the boy from Kaduna State and brought him down to Imo State to sell him to her partner, but unfortunately for her the said buyer rejected the boy on the basis that the boy has tribal marks on both side of his head.

“She was arrested based on a tip-off by the locals, who suspected that she was not in any way related to the boy.

“She confessed to the crime and said it was her third time.

‘’She said the first one she sold was her own son, named Joseph Imoh, aged two, who she sold for N200,000.

“The second was one Samuel, aged one, who she sold for N230,000”.