The Nigeria Immigration Service
(NIS), Oyo State Command on Thursday, said that it has discovered a baby
factory owned by one Mrs Stella at Block B, House 8, Adebayo Oke Street, around
Sharp Corner, Oluyole area of Ibadan, Oyo State.
Two female victims, including a
pregnant woman, were rescued, while three accomplices were arrested at the
factory during the discovery.
NIS Comptroller in the state, Saleh
Abdullahi, while briefing journalists on Thursday, disclosed that Zone F of the
command discovered the baby factory.
According to Abdullahi, the alleged
operator of the factory, Stella, is now at large.
He said the place was discovered in
the process of rescuing a 16-year-old girl, Mary Yawa, from her end user, Mrs
Kehinde Omotoso of Awolowo Bashorun area, Ibadan on January 28.
The girl, Yawa, was said to have
earlier delivered a baby at the baby factory on August 28, 2018.
Abdullahi said, “In the process of
investigation, Yawa, a Togolese, revealed that she was impregnated by one
Adewale when she was a housemaid to one Alhaja from Saki.
“A few days to her delivery, the
Alhaja took her to Stella, who is not a nurse, where she was delivered of a
baby on August 22, 2018.
“After her delivery, precisely on
August 27, 2018, the Alhaja, her master from Saki, came to the house with
another Igbo woman and took her child away, while Yawa was, thereafter, given
to her end user Omotoso, where she was rescued.
“The Nigeria Immigration Service
visited Stella’s house, but did not meet her. Officers met a 25-year-old girl,
Odunayo Abiodun, who claimed to be Stella’s sister and another 21-year-old
pregnant lady, Esther Hadji”.
Abdullahi said the pregnant Hadji, a
Togolese, claimed she was brought to Stella’s baby factory by her brother,
Kodjo.
He added that the immigration and the
police had been on the search for Stella and the Alhaja from Saki.
According to him, Stella’s house was
met under lock.
He, however, vowed that Stella and
the Alhaja would soon be arrested and prosecuted.
The two victims and three
accomplices were later handed over to the representatives of the National
Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
One of the victims, Yawa, whose baby
was taken, said the Alhaja lied to her that the baby had been given to
Adewale’s mother.
She said she did not know the
whereabouts of her baby and Adewale.
Another victim, Hadji said that
Stella came to meet her brother, Kodjo, that she would assist her to take care
of the baby whenever she gives birth.
She added that Stella later told her
after four days of living with her that the baby would be collected from her
after birth and given to the mother of the person that impregnated her.
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