Baby sales is lucrative business

Two nurses arrested for harbouring teenage pregnant girls and sale of babies have narrated how they abandoned their nursing profession when they discovered that the business was more profitable than serving in a hospital.

One of the female nurses simply identified as Nkiru, and popularly known in Onitsha, Anambra State where she was arrested as ‘mama Nmesoma’ said she had to abandon her Job as a nurse in an Onitsha based hospital when she realized the kind of money the hospital was making from sale of babies.

Nkiru claimed to have worked at a hospital along Okigwe road Owerri before moving over to the hospital in Onitsha.
She therefore decided to use a room in her three bedroom apartment where she was residing with the husband and their children for the business.

Luck however ran out on her when the Obi of Oraifite alerted the Enugu Zonal office of National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP) of a young girl who was brought to his palace by his subjects.

The young girl, (names withheld) during interrogation was reported to have said she was trekking to her place in Akwa Ibom; she said that somebody took away her baby at Onitsha and that she was on her way to Aba, from where she hoped to connect Akwa Ibom.

Investigations led NAPTIP to Onitsha where Nkiru was arrested, and five other teenage pregnant girls rescued from her factory.

The girl revealed that her older sister at Ikot Ekpene took her to Onitsha with her baby to stay with Nkiru; the her baby was taken from her and sold for N400, 000.
She fell out with her madam when she started asking about the whereabouts of her baby and was consequently thrown out of the house.

Said she; “whenever they get to my house, they don’t’ go out again; those that have phone I collect it from them; their people don’t know they are here, except those that brought them. A baby died during birth and I put her in nylon and threw her away.”

On her own part, 37-year-old Helen made so much money from the business that she now has two hospitals (baby factories) one at her headquarters in Ishieke, Ebonyi Baby sales is lucrative business
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Two nurses arrested for harbouring teenage pregnant girls and sale of babies have narrated how they abandoned their nursing profession when they discovered that the business was more profitable than serving in a hospital.

One of the female nurses simply identified as Nkiru, and popularly known in Onitsha, Anambra State where she was arrested as ‘mama Nmesoma’ said she had to abandon her Job as a nurse in an Onitsha based hospital when she realized the kind of money the hospital was making from sale of babies.

Nkiru claimed to have worked at a hospital along Okigwe road Owerri before moving over to the hospital in Onitsha.
She therefore decided to use a room in her three bedroom apartment where she was residing with the husband and their children for the business.

Luck however ran out on her when the Obi of Oraifite alerted the Enugu Zonal office of National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP) of a young girl who was brought to his palace by his subjects.

The young girl, (names withheld) during interrogation was reported to have said she was trekking to her place in Akwa Ibom; she said that somebody took away her baby at Onitsha and that she was on her way to Aba, from where she hoped to connect Akwa Ibom.

Investigations led NAPTIP to Onitsha where Nkiru was arrested, and five other teenage pregnant girls rescued from her factory.

The girl revealed that her older sister at Ikot Ekpene took her to Onitsha with her baby to stay with Nkiru; the her baby was taken from her and sold for N400, 000.
She fell out with her madam when she started asking about the whereabouts of her baby and was consequently thrown out of the house.

Said she; “whenever they get to my house, they don’t’ go out again; those that have phone I collect it from them; their people don’t know they are here, except those that brought them. A baby died during birth and I put her in nylon and threw her away.”

On her own part, 37-year-old Helen made so much money from the business that she now has two hospitals (baby factories) one at her headquarters in Ishieke, Ebonyi state and the other in the Abakaliki town.
She also confessed that her hospital receives and harbours under aged pregnant girls and after delivery sell to prospective buyers.

Helen who claimed to be a nurse said she worked at a hospital in Enugu owned by one Dr. Akunne, who himself is facing trial at an Enugu Federal High Court for the same offence she has been arrested for.
She revealed that she recruited people to source for pregnant girls; she claims to have a baby merchant in Aba, Abia State, a chemist in Enugu and a cleaner in a hospital in Enugu who supply the girls for N10, 000 each.
Like her colleague in Onitsha, Helen collects phones from her girls and deprive them access to the outside world.
One of the four pregnant girls rescued from her hospital said they were fed with okro soup, once a day.

state and the other in the Abakaliki town.
She also confessed that her hospital receives and harbours under aged pregnant girls and after delivery sell to prospective buyers.

Helen who claimed to be a nurse said she worked at a hospital in Enugu owned by one Dr. Akunne, who himself is facing trial at an Enugu Federal High Court for the same offence she has been arrested for.
She revealed that she recruited people to source for pregnant girls; she claims to have a baby merchant in Aba, Abia State, a chemist in Enugu and a cleaner in a hospital in Enugu who supply the girls for N10, 000 each.
Like her colleague in Onitsha, Helen collects phones from her girls and deprive them access to the outside world.
One of the four pregnant girls rescued from her hospital said they were fed with okro soup, once a day.