On Sunday, the Nigerian Army’s 14 Brigade, Ohafia, conducted a raid on a baby factory at Umunkpei Nvosi in the Abia State local government of Isiala-Ngwa, which was purportedly run by a local.
When the troops arrived to the facility, they had already freed 22 women, including 2 kids (a boy and a girl) and 21 pregnant women.
A Tiger generator, a stretcher, a gas cylinder, a bag of rice, four cans of tomatoes, five liters of vegetable oil, two bags of garri, and soup ingredients are among the additional items discovered there.
Following an intelligence information that the proprietor of the facility was selling some of the newborns to criminals for ritual use and other babies for child trafficking, the police raided the baby factory.
It was alleged that the woman was also constituting a nuisance in the area and that sometimes, human parts were seen around the building.
Security Personnel Freed Kidnapped Chinese National And Two Others
According to a member of the troop, the owner of the baby factory is currently at large but efforts are ongoing to apprehend her.
However, one Katherine Oyechi Ngwanma, a 34-year-old chef at the facility, was arrested by the troops.
The pregnant women, as well as the babies, have been handed over to the Abia State Government for further action.
The new Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Chinaka Maureen, could not be reached for comment.
The soldiers were led by the Army Public Relations Officer, 14 Brigade Ohafia, Lt Omale Innocent Prince, and the Media Adviser to Governor Alex Otti, Mr Ferdinand Ekeoma.
In an interview after the operation, Ekeoma commended the military for the operation, stating that there was no justification for why “this kind of thing should be happening in any part of Abia State”.
He assured that Alex Otti’s administration will sanitise the state, while the government will, in collaboration with the security agencies, conduct a thorough investigation on the matter.
Otti’s government, he said, would not allow such incident to thrive in any part of the state henceforth.
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