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THE UPPER East Police Command has reunited a two-month-old baby, stolen by 36-year-old Martha Abangre, with the real mother, Barikisu Mahama, also in her early 30s. According to the police, the baby�s mother had earlier reported of her missing baby girl to the police in Tema in the Greater Accra region and so when she heard the news about the arrest of the accused baby thief from Bolgatanga, she travelled there to see if the baby at the center of the case was her missing daughter. On Saturday, Barikisu Mahama told the police that the baby was her missing daughter. The accused, Martha Abangre, confirmed her claim but insisted that she (Martha Abangre) did not steal the baby, but paid an amount of GH�350 to buy the two-month-old baby girl. The Upper East Regional Crime Officer of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Ernest Owusu-Donkor, told Daily Guide that the police was still interested in knowing whether the accused, Martha Abangre, really paid the baby�s mother, Barikisu Mahama, an amount of GH�350 to buy the baby or not. Earlier, the accused had told the police, after her arrest, that she delivered the baby in Burkina-Faso, but a gynaecologist at the Regional Hospital, Bolgatanga, detected that Martha Abangre could not become pregnant. Against this background, the police became curious and wanted to know whether Martha�s 9-year-old �daughter� was a stolen child or her biological child. But the police�s work was made easier when Martha�s former husband, Asakeya Adongo, 62, told the police that he did not know where Martha got the girl from and that he did not impregnate her at the time they were living together as a couple. The man noted that he had to divorce Martha ten years ago, when she brought into their matrimonial home, a baby girl and refused to tell him or anyone, where she got the baby from.