The Delta State Police Command said in a statement on Saturday that ‘eight pregnant girls’, who were allegedly caught in the centre, were arrested alongside the suspected baby factory operator and his two boys.
The startling discovery was made when police detectives from the GRA Division Asaba swooped on the centre situated opposite the Federal Radio Corporation office in Asaba, following a tip-off, the state police spokeswoman, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) said.
She disclosed that during the operation at about 8.30 pm local time, last Thursday, July 30, the police detectives raided “a suspected baby factory at opposite Federal Radio Corporation, Asaba and arrested its operator, one John Mary Ihezun.”
Kalu gave the names of the eight pregnant girls as Ihezue Nkemjika, Amaka Agu, Isioma Anukwu and Blessing Okafor. Others are Imezoma Okeke, Chioma Oje, Precious Ihemine and Nzube Chukwu.
Two boys identified as “Prince Chukwu and Obum Nwankwo were also arrested from the said baby factory”, the PPRO said, noting that investigation into the matter was in progress.
The twin-crime of trafficking in human beings and deliberated “production” of babies using naive or desperately poor girls and young women has become a recurring decimal in parts of Nigeria in recent time.
Police investigation into some cases of alleged “baby factories” had revealed that the obnoxious business often operate under such covers as “orphanages”, religious cum social rehabilitation centres as well as hospitals and maternity homes run by persons supposed to be professionals in their respective fields.
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