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Police discover another baby factory in Lagos, rescue seven pregnant girls
The Police have uncovered another baby factory in the Isolo area of Lagos State.
The State Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said the factory was uncovered after about seven pregnant ladies escaped from there on Monday night.
According to Elkana, five of the girls hail from Imo State, one is from Abia, while the other is from Rivers State.
The recent discovery comes days after another baby factory was discovered at Ikotun, a suburb of Lagos State. No fewer than 19 pregnant girls and women, aged from 15 to 28, brought from all over Nigeria with promises of work, were rescued from the Ikotun baby factory.
Four babies were also found.
“The young women were mostly abducted by the suspects for the purpose of getting them pregnant and selling the babies to potential buyers. The girls were tricked with employment as domestic staff in Lagos,” said Lagos police spokesman Bala Elkana.
“Boys are sold for 500,000 naira ($1,630) and girls for 300,000 naira ($980).”
The girls and women were brought to Lagos from the southern and eastern states of Rivers, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Abia and Imo.
Elkana said the raid had taken place on Sept. 19 but had been kept secret to enable the police to apprehend suspects.
Two women aged 40 and 54 were arrested in connection with the case and police were still looking for a third.
One of the freed women, who did not want to be named, said she had been impregnated by her boyfriend and told by her aunt that there was a job for her in Lagos.
She said a woman to whom she was introduced had induced her labour when she was seven months pregnant.
“After being in labour for three days, that was when police raided the place and took all of them. The baby came out weak and finally died,” she told Reuters.
Elkana said the state criminal investigation department would take over the case and was working with other agencies to resettle the women and girls and their babies.
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