A Nigerian man has been arrested for trafficking his wife to Mali for prostitution and selling his 2-year-old son for N600,000.

The 36-year-old, identified as Kingsley Essien, has been arrested by officers of the Ogun State Police command for trafficking his wife to Mali for prostitution and also selling her 2 year old son at N600,000.

The man was arrested following a report lodged at Agbara divisional headquarters of the command by his wife, Bright Essien.

She reported that back in October 2021, her husband, Kingsley Essien, informed her that he had secured a job for her in Bamako, Mali, and that he had also assisted many people to that country for greener pastures before.

She explained that she didn’t suspect anything until she got to Mali, only to discover that she has been sold to human trafficker cartel headed by a woman at the rate of one million, four hundred thousand naira.

While in Mali, she was forced into prostitution, but later found her way to Nigeria embassy in Bamako where she was assisted back to Nigeria.

While in Nigeria, she discovered that her two years old son whom she left in her husband care was no where to be found.

DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, who disclosed this in a press statement on Thursday said on interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime, saying he sold the two years old son to somebody at the rate of six hundred thousand naira.

However, Lanre Bankole, the State Commissioner of Police, has ordered that the suspect be transferred to anti human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.

He equally ordered that the buyer of the son must be traced and arrested in order to recover the stolen child.