No matter how we want to talk about this incident, there's no way we can justify the selling of her child to repay a loan she had took earlier without even the consent of the child being sold. Let's educate ourselves a bit, under the child's rights act of Nigeria and the Trafficking in Persons Enforcement and Administration Act of 2015, to sell a child is a serious and severe criminal offense.
Depending on the severity of the case, the Child Right Act have enforced the selling of children as an offense that is punishable by 10 years of imprisonment by the court of law while the Trafficking in Persons Enforcement and Administration Act could range between 7 years under prison detention or in worse cases, life imprisonment.
This is when it's believed to be an act practiced by law breakers or bad people. Now, this case is with the mother who have labored for the child for other 9 months in pregnancy and have been catering for the child for over years now, to suddenly sell her child in place of a loan repayment continues to make it more difficult for one to comprehend. She's not to be excused for such insane attitude and while I understand the current economic realities facing us today as citizens, it should be a red line crossed to find people deliberately engaging in such heinous acts.