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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

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?

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

sHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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.
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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

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