A lady operating a baby factory has been arrested by the NSCDC for harbouring pregnant teenagers and selling their babies to interested clients. Most of these teenagers fall within the age range of 10-20. This booming business was exposed following numerous reports by indigenes of the community. Below is a detailed report according to online Nigeria.
When the men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NCSDC) in Abia busted the facility last week, 32 pregnant teenagers were rescued, while the proprietor and two others were arrested.
Most of the teenagers rescued, were girls who ran out of their parents home after becoming pregnant out of wedlock. The owner of the house is said to accept such girls, take care of them for the entire duration of their pregnancy and enter into an agreement to sell the babies after giving birth to them. It was also learnt that after giving birth, those interested can remain behind and be made pregnant again by visiting males employed by the owner.
After giving birth, the teenagers will be paid N100, 000, for a baby boy and N80, 000 for a baby girl by the proprietor who sells the babies to interested clients. "The owner of the maternity home sells a baby boy for N450, 000, and a girl for N400, 000," the Public Relations Officer of NSCDC in Abia State, Victor Ogbonna, said.
He said although the home is registered with the state government, the owner commits all sorts of illegality. The home was commissioned last December by the proprietor Mrs. Nnenna Mba, with the help of her police-husband Agbai Mba as well as one Chinwoke Mba.
One of the teenage girls seen at the entrance of the building when being questioned said that "Our madam (Mrs. Mba) is detained in Umuahia by men of Civil Defence. She is innocent as she is only assisting childless couples from Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt by selling male and female babies at an agreed fee, thus she settles the mother of the baby and takes the balance of the money."
She claimed that her madam would soon be released by the security agent as this is not the first time she has been arrested. "They would release her to continue her service," she said.
According to her, "visitors are not allowed into this building. Only clients who come for business or teenage girls who desire to sell their babies to prospective buyers are welcome," she exclaimed.
A villager who refused to give her name said in December the proprietor was arrested by security agents, but the police-husband ensured her prompt bail. According to her, "that madam, the husband is a police officer from Bende Local Government Area. He has contacts with various security agents who whenever she is arrested the husband would move in and effect her bail. Elders of the community have written to the security agencies informing them of the illicit business going on in this our community.
The proprietor is not from our community, but she bought the land from one Chukwdi Ezu, an indigene. When we complained, her landlord wanted to evict her, but she got some elders to intervene on her behalf.
"With the latest development, we are watching how they would do man-know-man with her police-husband and secure her bail as usual. After all, she has been taken to Abuja on several occasions only for her to come back and continue her business," she explained.
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