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Eight pregnant ladies including
teenage girls have been rescued by the
The police also arrested a middle aged man
and a 26 year old woman running the factory.
While parading the suspects at the Ajuwon
Divisional Police Headquarters, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Mr
Ikemefuna Okoye, described the development as inhuman, insisting that the
command would get to the root of the matter.
The suspects are expected to be transferred
to the state criminal investigation department for through investigations.
The structure which housed the hostages
appeared as residential building but the latest discovery by the police
revealed that a baby making factory was domiciled in the house, where teenage
girls were made to part with their babies after delivery and a token given.
The 26 year old woman, Angela Chigoeze, who
claimed to be operating a divine herbal clinic, has been arrested as the
one in charge of the illicit operation which sold babies for an alleged sum of
300,000 Naira (about 1,800 dollars).
“If they give birth, I will sell the child
for 300,000. I sell it to women that cannot give birth,” she said.
The state’s Commissioner of
Police said the arrest was made possible through information by some
residents, adding that the police was on the trail of other accomplices.
Baby factory is gradually
becoming a business in
The discovery of a baby factory in Imo State in December 2013 led to the banning of all non-governmental organization operating under the platform of motherless babies’ home.
About 24 persons were also arrested in
January at a Baby
factory uncovered in Ilu-Titun, a town in Okitipupa Local
Government Area of Ondo State by the Officers of the Nigeria Immigration
Service in the state.