POLICE raids have revealed an alleged network baby "farms" or "factories" in Nigeria, forcing a new look at the scope of people trafficking in the country.

At a hospital in Enugu, a large city in Nigeria's southeast, 20 teenage girls were rescued in May in a police swoop on what was believed to be one of the largest infant trafficking rings in the west African country.

The two-storey building on a dusty street in Enugu's teeming Uwani district now stands deserted, shutters down.

Neighbours had long found something bizarre about the establishment, where there was virtually no activity during the day, they said.

The doctor in charge, who is now on trial, reportedly lured teenagers with unwanted pregnancies by offering to help with abortion.

They would be locked up there until they gave birth, whereupon they would be forced to give up their babies for a token fee of around 20,000 naira ($170).

The babies would then be sold to buyers for anything between 300,000 and 450,000 naira ($2500-$3800) each, according to a state agency fighting human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP)

But luck ran out for the gynaecologist, said to be in his 50s, when a woman to whom he had sold a day-old infant was caught by Nigeria's Security and Civil Defence Service (NSCDS) while trying to smuggle the child to Lagos, the security agency said.

Statistics on the prevalence of baby breeding are hard to come by, but anti-trafficking campaigners say it is widespread and run by well-organised criminal syndicates.

"We believe the scope is much wider than we know," said Ijeoma Okoronkwo, head of NAPTIP.

"It has been happening over time, but we did not know. The first indication we had about this came in December 2006, when an NGO raised the alarm and told us babies were being exchanged for cash and that there were a number of hospitals involved."
[b]
The practice takes varying forms. One is where desperate teenagers with unplanned pregnancies, fearing ostracism by society, get lured to a clinic and are forced to turn over their babies.

The girls are so intimidated many can hardly relate their experience freely.

But one brave victim, an 18-year-old, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal, recounted her week-long ordeal when she was trapped inside one of the clinics days before it was raided by police.

"The moment I stepped in there, I was given an injection, I passed out and next thing I woke up and realised I had been raped," said the girl, who was five months pregnant at the time of her ordeal.

When she asked if she could telephone her family to let them know of her whereabouts, the doctor slapped her on the face.

She was shoved into a room where 19 other girls were kept; all had been through a similar experience. She said the doctor raped her again the following day. A week later police swooped on the clinic.[/b]

Another category of young women, driven by deep poverty, lease out their wombs and volunteer themselves, as regularly as is biologically possible, to produce babies for sale.

"When we raided the hospital, we found four women who had been staying at the clinic for up to three years, to breed babies," NSDCS boss for Enugu state commandant Desmond Agu said.

The doctor, whom police named, "had been inviting boys to come and impregnate girls," said Mr Agu.

This was just one of around a dozen centres - masquerading as maternity clinics, foster homes, orphanages or shelters for homeless pregnant girls - unearthed in recent months where babies were swapped for cash, said the NAPTITP boss.

Last month police swooped on a so-called foster home, not far from the Enugu police headquarters, where seven pregnant teenage girls and five
workers were rounded up,

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24650838-23109,00.html

Hmm, In this generation,

Things seem to be getting worse.

@seun

The world is coming to an END

be prepared for the RAPTURE

Cipriani:

@seun

The world is coming to an END

be prepared for the RAPTURE

So just because a couple of fellows came up with an inhumane way to make money, the world all of a sudden is coming to an end.
When Hitler fried Jews, the world did not end,
When Bush smoked Iraqis, the world did not end,
When Terrorists blew-up the WTC, the world survived,
When Saddam gassed his own people, the world did not end,
When God drowned the whole world in water, Somehow noah managed to give birth to 6/7 continents.

So puleeze with the rature talk already.

This is horrible.
A physician capturing little girls for  breeding and selling the babies
our people are heartless o

people don craze oo

dem come dey breed children like xmas turkey or sallah ram?!

This is so wrong.
My birth home of all places
a little search revealed that this greed is spread out but the Enugu case is worse

One of the women who allegedly bought a baby girl two weeks back, at the rate of about N20,000.00, to be paid in instalments, had her first and last child over fifteen years ago and had been seeking to have more since then, without success.

The little baby girl she bought was delivered by a 23-year-old Southern Kaduna girl (names withheld) who allegedly told the physician, after a safe delivery, to kill the baby. Her reason, Nigerian Newsday gathered, was that as a student of Kaduna Polytechnic, it would be difficult for her to fend for a baby and that having a baby around her would not allow her to continue to play "the young girl".

The doctor who allegedly has a reputation of selling such babies had earlier been contacted by the woman who eventually bought the baby.

Nigerian Newsday source said shortly after the woman was contacted to come and collect the baby girl, a ritualist who also patronised the doctor came offering something higher, but was told he might not have it because the woman had earlier booked for and was promised the baby.

Nigerian Newsday was also reliably told of a baby boy that was delivered penultimate week by a Hausa girl already engaged by someone but who offered the baby for sale because she allegedly had it for a man other than her husband to be.

http://www.nasarawastate.org/newsday/news/nasarawa/10528113247.html

na wahhh oooooooooooo. wonders shall never cease to happen

then this doctor didn't get the baby at birth but still managed to snatch it from the helpless teenage girl.

Meanwhile, Sarah said when she got to the hospital, Adeyemi gave her some drugs to take which made her feel dizzy.

“After taking the drugs he drove me in his car to White House Street where Mary Okon lives and collected the baby from the car and handed him over to the nurse.

“I was feeling too weak and confused and could not do or say anything,” Sarah narrated.

After returning to the hospital, Dr. Adeyemi she said gave her the key to his office to go in there and wait.

“After I waited for a long time in his office, he did not come. I decided to come out when my head cleared a little. When he came back, he was very angry and ordered me to go inside the office and he locked me up,” Sarah said in tears.

The girl was locked up in office until the following day which was a Monday. According to her, the doctor on Monday morning wrote a letter which he handed over to her to copy which he then dispatched to her sisters in Ikot Ansa.
http://desholakomolafe.tigblog.org/post/209769
The

Is *Osisi the same as the one and only Babyosisi, and Nwando ?

OgidiBoy:

Is *Osisi the same as the one and only Babyosisi, and Nwando ?

sHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

ogidi boy are you seeing what I'm seeing.
Doctors in Enugu are are now selling babies on a grand scale.
na so Nigeria bad reach?

A Nigerian orphanage has been closed down and its owner, a female pastor, arrested after allegations that it was at the heart of a baby-selling scam.
Police say the orphanage looked after unmarried girls during their pregnancies and then sold their babies on to childless couples.

Hospitals in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, were also involved, police say. [b][/b]

Fifteen pregnant girls and four babies are being looked after by Nigeria's social welfare agency.

Padding

The husband and daughter of the 46-year-old pastor have also been arrested.

The BBC's Sola Odunfa in Lagos says the pregnant girls were told their babies would be adopted through official channels.


These children were rescued from granite mines in Nigeria
They were paid $180, while the babies were allegedly sold for $1,000.

After giving birth, some of the girls returned home without anyone knowing they had been pregnant.

A police spokesman said sometimes, the husband of the couple buying the baby was unaware of what was happening.

A woman looking for a baby would be told by the orphanage to fake an accident and go to a hospital which was part of the scam.

Doctors there would "discover" she was pregnant and ask her to attend ante-natal classes.

Each time she attended, doctors would increase the padding over her stomach to make it appear as though her pregnancy was developing, until finally, she gave birth.

A doctor has also been arrested.

Way of life

This is the second alleged case of child trafficking discovered in Nigeria in a week.

A woman was arrested after 56 children were found in her truck last week.

Police accused her of bringing them from central Nigeria to work as domestic servants in Lagos.
The government has pledged to tackle the problem and last year outlawed trafficking and set up an agency to deal with offenders.

But officials say it is hard to crack down in a country where people are poor and where trafficking has become an accepted way of life.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4346873.stm

The world is such a wicked place

My dear it's really sad what our people will do for money. I pray the law deal with these heartless ungodly people.

This is sickening. If any more of these 'factories' are remaining (which I'm sure of), I hope they are all raided, and everyone who is involved is disciplined severely. These type of things need to be 'stomped out' quickly before they gain momentum, and start becoming widespread. We don't want this becoming the next bad thing Naija is known for.

The scariest was the story I posted above in Kaduna area where a woman had been promised the baby for sale and a ritualist who also patronised the same joint came and gave a higher bid.
This is disgusting and infuriating.

just because of this n

Cipriani:

@seun

The world is coming to an END

be prepared for the RAPTURE

the world will come to an end just because of this ape shit?, some of us still have many important things to do

*osisi:

The scariest was the story I posted above in Kaduna area where a woman had been promised the baby for sale and a ritualist who also patronised the same joint came and gave a higher bid.
This is disgusting and infuriating.

Nne, I don't know; selling babies or killing them as witches which is worse. Either way, we're stepping back to pre-Vasco de Gama era.

I love my country but until we find better ways to judge women i.e. virginity, fertility, skin tone, hairlength these types of things will continue. Rather than act like sex is unnatural, teach these young girls about contraception. As for the infertile women, the shame has to be removed so that they seek legal recourse rather than baby by moonlight means to "redeem" themselves.

putting an end to situations like the aforementioned
has to start with you.

your little contribution is all we need for a better future

@post

its sad; but then the igbos in enugu always beleive that sort of thing isnt enugu thing, its usually anambra state thing

so there u go nwando

nevermind the witch thing, this one came out on front cover in UK here as well at the time, also in BBC24 hmm ha

wnat has happened to GODS own time
human beings wanna help God and its a result of impatience
but it all is bad and where does it leave them now that they have been nabbed
its a high level of man's inhumanity to man
and where does that leave the children they used
what if some1 used their own children like that how wuld they feel

You hear something this week and are horrified. The following week, it is something worse. Who is the doctor in the post?Why isn't his identity revealed? And the other evildoers, no names. Why are they being shielded in news reports?
People are terrible.

Even worst are happening

Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat Nigeria!!!!!!!. New day,New strange stories.My Only pray is may God have mercy on that country Nigeria.

Re: Baby Farms At Enugu State: People Are Wicked

Well, Its no news. Afterall if human beings can be eaten by fellow humans, why cant humans be sold by humans? Its no news oooo,

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wonders shall neva end in Nigeria.

how much for twins , just kiddin