Sights & Sounds:Boy 15 years old Conveniently Traded For Two Bags of Rice!

Is it hunger? Is it greed?Is it lack of respect for life.

This is not different from the days of old that, people were sold into slavery for fried chicken ,mirror ,eggs,or a pair of sandals etc.

Seun Aderinwale  Exchanged for Two Bags of Rice

The story below is of a 15 year old boy called Seun Aderinwale was successfully exchanged for two bags of rice valued at N20,000 on Monday by man yet to be identified.

It was gathered that ,this incident happened at Igando in Alimosho area of Lagos State,occurred when a the man whom Seun was meant to be working for as an apprentice,took him to him to the shop owned by one Iya Ibrahim .

On getting there met with the son of Iya Ibrahim as Iya Ibrahim  herself was not available at the time. Since he did not have the money to pay for two bags of rice ,he used the boy Seun as collateral saying that he will return to pay,and collected bags of rice and left.

When Iya Ibrahim came back,she was surprised to see the little Seun in her shop.It was later resolved that the pastor of a Celestial Church intervened  to settle the matter.

To resolve the bags taken by the con man it was agreed that Seun's father should pay for one bag while the owner of the shop should take responsibility for the other bag that was taken by the culprit.

When Seun's was questioned how he met the con man,he was vague and said that he did not know the man as he met him recently  close to his house when he was sent on an errand to play lotto.