Operatives of Imo State Police Command, Shell Camp Division, have arrested a couple, Mr. Chukwudinma and Mrs. Comfort Umunnakwe for allegedly running a baby factory in the state.
Gatekeepers News reports that the police paraded the suspects, who own Comfort Orphanage Home, situated at World Bank, Owerri at the Command’s headquarters in Owerri on Sunday.
According to reports, they were arrested following the intelligence report received by the operatives.
Command’s spokesman, ASP Henry Okoye said the arrest was in furtherance to the commitment of the command led by CP Aboki Danjuma to curb the menace of baby factories, child trafficking, and other vices in the state.
Okoye revealed that the suspects coerced them into signing a document to give away their children upon delivery for either N400,000 or N500, 000 depending on the gender of the child.
He noted that the suspects who confessed to being in the criminal activity for over 12 years would be arraigned in court upon completion of investigation.
Okeye urged the residents of the state to continually support the command by reporting any criminal or suspicious activity in their vicinity to the nearest Police Station or via the Command’s emergency lines 08034773600 or 08098880197.
One of the victims named Ijeoma told newsmen that after luring them to the orphanage, the suspects would forcefully collect their phones lock them up in secluded rooms, and only feed them once a day.
She disclosed that though the suspects promised to adequately take care of them, they were however subjected to all forms of inhuman treatment and threats.
Ijeoma said, “Immediately I was brought to that place by a woman I met on the road, these people (the suspects) collected my phone and have been forcing me to sign a document that I am going to sell my baby to them once I deliver.”
“I refused to sign the document and ever since then I have been asking them to allow me to go or to contact my family but they refused till now.”
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