Another Notorious Baby Factory Busted by Nigeria Army in Enugu

 

A notorious baby factory that posed as a hospital in the Gariki area of Enugu, the capital of Enugu State, was last weekend busted by soldiers from the 82nd Division of the Nigerian Army. This development comes as a young woman who managed to escape from the breeding house in the city, exposed the baby factory.

A source said that the army raided the clinic and found at least ten pregnant women held against their will as they awaited childbirth. According to the source, after the women delivered, the babies were taken from them by the operators of the baby factory and sold.

The escaped victim said she had been introduced to a woman identified as a nurse and who was to help her deliver her baby. A month later, she delivered a baby. As soon as she was able to stand up, she was asked to go and take a shower. But on returning to the delivery room, she found to her horror that her newborn baby had disappeared.

She stated that the nurse running the baby factory offered her N120,000 and told her that her baby had been given to those who could not biologically have babies.

After arresting the operator of the factory, Chinyere Nome, the soldiers handed her over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

It was learned that the army unit that raided the hospital that served as the factory saw and rescued 10 women locked up inside a high-rise fenced compound in Gariki, Enugu. The victims reported that nobody who came into the facility ever left without delivering her baby. “Any girl who came in would not be allowed to go outside again until after delivery,” one victim said.

The source said the operator of the factory sold each baby for between N300,000 and N400,000.