The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Services has raided a house allegedly used as a baby factory in Ilutitun, Okitipupa Local Government Area, arresting 24 persons.
The suspects included a 66-year-old man, Mr. Aliu Ojo, who claimed to be a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and the alleged leader of the factory, Mrs. Happiness Ogundeji (aka Mama Pota) aged 45.
They were paraded on Wednesday at the state headquarters of the service.
Five ladies at different stages of pregnancy and eight men, some claiming to be husbands of the women, were also brought to the headquarters.
Parading the suspects, the Comptroller of NIS, Ondo State, Mr.Musa Al-Hassan, said the raid on the house and the arrest of the suspects were sequel to a tip-off from the Comptroller General of the NIS, who directed the command to work on a circular that emanated from Calabar, Cross River State.
Al-Hassan said when he received the circular, which pointed out that searchlight should be beamed on Imo and Ondo states in search of perpetrators of human trafficking and baby factories, he instructed the Head of Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Section of the command, Mrs. Abiola Obisesan, to swing into action.
He said the efforts of the command paid off after several months of surveillance with the discovery of two flats being used for the illegal operation at Ilutitun.
According to the Comptroller, leader of the syndicate, who had another branch at Ore, in Odigbo Local Government, relocated to Ilutitun, Ondo State from Port-Harcourt, where she had been doing the illegal business.
He stated that the woman had been doing the business in conjunction with a Cameroonian, adding that the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person had requested that the arrested people be brought to Lagos.
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