Police in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, have freed 19 women and girls who had mostly been abducted and impregnated by captors planning to sell their babies.

The girls and women, aged from 15 to 28, had been brought from all over Nigeria with promises of work, Lagos police said on Monday. Four babies were also found.

“Baby factories”, as such premises are widely known, are most common in parts of eastern Nigeria.

“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 labor when she was seven months pregnant.

“After being in labor 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.

Last week, around 400 boys and men, some as young as five and many in chains and scarred from beatings, were rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna that purported to be an Islamic school
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These baby factory people, what is wrong with them.

I think the fact that after we hear the news, we don't follow up on what happens after, are you sure they are really being prosecuted?




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A foreign angle of the story.
A baby for $980? Is this poverty or greed?

Wicked and desperate people everywhere

Good

Mehn so many wickedness in this country..animals working in human clothing.. mehn. Creator where did we go wrong, were did we lose it �

A lucrative business nowadays NwaAmaikpe, Suya boy and Airforce1 should take up the job of impregnanting them.

Those who do not value life cannot enhance it. Africans find it difficult to enhance the lives of their citizens because they do not value life in the first places. Placing a sum value on life is such a dehumanising thing to do.
The victims are the biggest culprits too. They are well informed about what they are doing. As much as you can force a horse to the river but you cannot for the horse to drink

Awon developers and baby factory business. This is unethical and a stain on humanity.

u mean say one pesin Bleep all of them?

Op u are a tribalist..Easterners kill u there

Mutemenot:
A lucrative business nowadays NwaAmaikpe, Suya boy and Airforce1 should take up the job of impregnanting them.

God forbid.

Adding another set of idîots into the gene pool is not good for our race!

Baby factory
Na real wa oh

Ok

ok

Evil people

Wawu

Forget those lies they say when they are caught... They actually know that will be producing babies for sell... They are not victims mbok except for the underage tho

Neddstark:
Awon developers and baby factory business. This is unethical and a stain on humanity.

Sai barber legacies

Thunder fire all those who brought this affliction on the nation

Tell me what's the difference between this and what is happening in our nation.

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
2 Kings 6:28‭-‬29 KJV


For a woman to suffered through conception and labour just for a fee is terrible. This is a symptom of a failed values. People are suffering.

Okay

Chai easterners
Imo state leading in baby production

stale news nah...why is naira land behind in news reporting...

This is crime against humanity

Hmmmmm!!!

Nigeria @ 59!!!

Please don't soar my celebration mode!!!

The full weight of the law should be implemented please; these people will not allow someone to hear great news

But what is it with Easterners and Baby factory? Are most Easterns barren or impotent.
Or is it the quest for a male child

All baby factories operators are supposed to receive nothing less than 70 years in jail.

Cruel animals.