More than 24 suspects were arrested in connection with the illegal establishment of a Baby factory which was uncovered in Ilu-Titun in Okitipupa council area of Ondo State by the state command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS.
Several those also arrested by the anti-trafficking detectives of the command included five pregnant women, five nursing mothers, five babies, two of which are less than a month old and eight men whose duty it was to impregnate the women.
It was learnt that Mrs Happiness Ogundeji, the proprietor of the baby factory had been underground, and after several months of intelligence gathering and discreet surveillance by officials of the command then she was finally apprehended.
The suspects arrested were paraded before newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Akure, yesterday, by the state’s comptroller of NIS, Mr Musa Al-Hassan.
According to reports, the proprietor, Mrs Ogundeji had to relocate to Ondo State after she was arrested in Imo State for a similar offence.
Al-Hassan told newsmen that following a tip-off, the suspects were rounded up at their hideout by a combined team of his officers and military operatives.
According to him, the suspects had earlier resisted arrest following which they reinforced to effect the arrest.
Meanwhile, all the suspects are to be transferred to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, headquarters in Lagos after preliminary investigation by the officials of the command.
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