Nigeria, Aug. 22 -- The police in Imo State, South-east Nigeria, have arrested two suspected human traffickers in the state.

Henry Okoye, the police spokesperson in the state, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.

Mr Okoye, a deputy superintendent of police, said the two suspects were involved in separate child trafficking cases in the state.

Mr Okoye said, in one of the operations on 12 August, police operatives intercepted a couple with a four-year-old boy identified as Isaiah along the Owerri-Port Harcourt Road in the state.

The police spokesperson said the couple - Ngozi Ezekwere, 46, and Monday Atodo, 43 - were resident in Abuja, Nigeria's capital.

He said the couple was intercepted and arrested during a police routine stop...