•8 pregnant girls found in wardrobe, rescued •Babies sold for N300,000 eachEight pregnant girls have been rescued by the Ogun State Police Command as it uncovered a baby-making factory in Akute in Ifo Local Government Area of the state.
Three of the pregnant girls were teenagers, who identified themselves as Precious Steven, Miracle Eze and Blessing Saviour. Others were Gift Jeremiah, 25; Joy Okoro, 20; Stella Samuel, 19; Agnes Igbo, 22 and Vivian Princewill, 20.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ikemefuna Okoye, while conducting newsmen round the baby-making factory, which has its operational base at No 9, Sebanjo Crescent, off Fabolude bus stop, Akute, said that men of the Ajuwon Divisional Police Station stormed the place while acting on a tip-off.
Okoye said: “When we moved in around 7:00a.m. on Thursday, we couldn’t get anything. So, we left. But later, we got information and we came back to the house and continued searching. We discovered that the pregnant girls were hidden in the wardrobe.
“One of the girls kept in the wardrobe fainted and she was taken to the hospital and was revived. This is inhumanity to human beings. The coordinator (Angela) of this baby factory sold each baby at N300,000 or even more. She in turn gives pittance to these young girls. If the mother delivers a stillborn, she will not get anything.”
Okoye said that the proprietor of the factory, Chigoeze, and her brother-in-law, Obinna Ndunaga, arrested in a raid conducted by the police would be transferred to the command’s headquarters for further investigation.
The CP said that the discovery of the baby-making factory was made possible due to robust community policing and discreet intelligence gathering by men of the state police command.
Speaking with newsmen, Chigoeze claimed that her husband, now at large, rented the building from where the illicit business was transacted.
Chigozie, who hails from Abia State, said she started the business last year as a traditional healing home.
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