By Stephen Uka, Umuahia
(NIGERIA) The war against child trafficking recorded
huge success yesterday following the
raid of a baby factory by the Abia state command of the Nigeria Security
and Civil Defence Corps.
No fewer than 19 pregnant young women were rescued from the
home located at Umunkpeyi in Isiala Ngwa South local government area of the
state.
Security operatives have continued to clamp down on baby
factories in the state especially Aba where a popular hospital was recently
demolished by government for alleged involvement in the illegal deal.
Parading the rescued girls and some of the workers in the
baby factory, Abia state commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Andy Dateer, said the arrest was made possible
following a tip-off.
Apart from the 19 pregnant inmates, NSCDC said three babies
aged two were also rescued along with four social workers and four young men
who were arrested at the premises.
According to him, the operators of the home keep young women
with unwanted pregnancy in the premises and sell off their babies as soon as
they are delivered of them.
He added that the owner of the baby factory still at large
also arrange with some men “who
impregnate the girls and after delivery their babies are sold, while they are
given peanuts.”
Dateer said that he decided to parade the rescued girls and
the suspects, “to tell the people of Abia state that such people exist in the
state and since the state is God’s own state, such operations are not supposed
to work here.”
The NSCDC boss said he had hinted the police, women affairs
department, office of Her Excellency, as well as the governor about the
development.
He however said one of the pregnant women had been rushed to
the hospital following her critical health condition, adding that the Command
in partnership with the relevant authorities, will monitor the re- unification
of the inmates with their families for proper care.
Speaking with journalists, some of the inmates who said they
hailed from neighboring states, lamented that they had not been fed for the
last two days.
They regretted their actions but blamed it on Satan, poverty
and lack of parental care.
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