an abortion but he had convinced her to stay until she gave birth. “The doctor gave me 70,000 naira and the baby was taken away from me right after I gave birth,” she said.
In another incident in 2008 a network of baby factories, which claimed to be orphanages, was busted by police raid. It will be recalled that in May 2008 20 teenage girls were also rescued by the Police in Enugu then, in this case teenage girls with unwanted pregnancies, were locked up in a two storey building as the Doctor in charge lured them with the offer to help them with abortion. However, they were kept there and deceived until they gave birth whereupon they were being forced to sale the babies for N20, 000. Thenthese babies were sold to buyers for N300, 000 and N450, 000 each, according to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
In another case in 2011, men and officers of the Nigeria Police also raided two hospitals where thirty-two pregnant girls were rescued in Aba, Abia State from a hospital known as ‘The Cross Foundation’. In same Abia State, another clinic was raided, this time it was ‘Double Research Clinic and Laboratory’ at Iheoji Mgboko in Obingwa LGA, which is said to be run by one Mr. John Onyemachi, a lab scientist. However the Abia scenario became more pronounced to the extent that a childless Yoruba lady, who had married for five years, facing family discomforts, was told by her lady friend of a