Four pregnant girls have been rescued from a baby factory in Nnewi, Anambra State by operatives of the state Police Command.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Mohammed, said the ladies who were awaiting delivery were rescued from a beer parlor named Cool Joint Bar.
Mohammed said that the baby factory fronting as a bar and brothel was managed by one Gladys Ikegwuonu, now at large, adding that the pregnant girls were from Ebonyi state.
The PPRO noted that the girls were kept in the brothel for the purpose of making babies for sale, adding that that the bar business was a cover for the baby factory run within.
Mohammed said the Command was intensifying efforts to arrest Ikegwuonu in order to bring her and other accomplices to Justice.
He, however, said that two suspects, Abuchi Ani, 32, of Ohazora, Ebonyi State, and Emeka Ikegwuonu, 49, of Akabukwu, Nnewi, Anambra State, had been arrested.
Mohammed said, “It would be recalled that there was a report at the Area Command Headquarters, Nnewi, that a four-year-old child of St Joseph’s School, Otolo Nnewi, was returning home from school in the company of his siblings when two men on a motorcycle grabbed the child and zoomed off with him.
“The child was rescued by some commercial motorcyclists who pursued and eventually arrested the suspects at Akamili Community, Nnewi.
“Preliminary investigations by the police revealed that the suspects who were beaten to stupor by an angry mob (one of whom was confirmed dead), were sent by one Gladys Nworie Ikegwuonu, presently at large, who also operates a baby factory and a brothel by keeping young girls and getting them impregnated after which she sells the children to her waiting customers.
“Four pregnant young girls were rescued as follows: Chisom Okoye, 20, of Mgbaneze Isu, Onicha LGA; Chinecherem Clement, 18, of Agbaebo Isu of Onicha LGA; Blessing Ogbonna, 21 of Nkwagu Isu of Onicha LGA; Blessing Njoku, 21, of Mgbaneze Isu of Onicha LGA, all of Ebonyi State, but residing at Cool Joint bar Nnewi.”
