Jos — The Plateau State Police Command yesterday paraded four women in connection with the sale of an eight-month-old baby. Among them was the baby' grandmother, who was alleged to have sold the baby to the first buyer.

It was gathered that the baby's grandmother, one Kate Anwacha, sold the baby for N200,000 to the first buyer named Eucharia Anyeagbu, who in turn sold the baby for N330,000 to the second buyer, Rita Madubuko, who then sold the baby at N500,000 to one Grace Nnadozie.

According to the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Chris Olakpe, who paraded the suspects in Jos, baby Chiamaka Obinna was recovered a week ago at Awka, Anambra State, through intelligence efforts of detectives from the 'A' Division of the Nigerian Police, Jos.

Olakpe added that the baby's grandmother who had custody of the baby, sold her to the first buyer on July 19, after sending her relations on an errand.

The case got to the police through the baby's mother, Blessing Godspower, who told newsmen during the parade yesterday that she reported her mother, Kate Anwacha, to the police when her daughter disappeared because her mother had suggested the selling the baby, who was conceived outside wedlock even before she was born.