baby factory in Aba, Abia State and the lady went to Aba, met the owners of the baby market and was asked to pay N2m for a male child. She was also given some medicines which made her look pregnant. Her husband thought she was pregnant. Towards the time of delivery, she told her husband she was travelling abroad to have the baby. But she went to Aba where a baby boy was handed over to her after paying the full amount. She returned to Lagos and lived with her husband with the child. The man thought the boy was his.
In another scenario, in 2007, the proprietor of the ‘The Cross Foundation’, Dr Hycinth Orikara, 1988 University of Nigeria, Nsukka graduate, began his illegal business in Port Harcourt,a refuge for those seeking babies. Its walls, like those in Aba, Port Harcourt and Enugu, are high enough to hide the activities of the baby factory, where women, pretending to be heavily pregnant, are delivered of their ‘babies’ at a high cost. The cost for the babies can get to as much as N1 million, male babies N500, 000, females between N350, 000 and N450, 000 and they collect cash not cheque. The owner of this particular baby factory was one Mrs. Ayodele Omosuyi, popularly known as Iyawo in the community. It was close to Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, also close to Aba. However, it was observed that the Police were aware but could not do anything until NAPTIP, using soldiers stormed the place. Decayed human bodies that