Operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) have burst open a syndicate of what social rights activists referred to as baby sales stock market in Atani, Ogbaru LGA near Onitsha.
The operatives had on a tip-off late Thursday afternoon stormed their base, a new storey building located nearby Atani Police Station and picking up all those seen within the compound.
Loading ...According to eye witnesses, no fewer than 13 girls in various degrees of pregnancy were discovered in the building while the operator ran away mysteriously. It was revealed that the operators of the pay the girls N200,000 for a boy and N150,000 for a baby girl on delivery.
Sadly it was also found that mortality for the breeders(girls) and their babies have been high as they were given limited medical care and scanty meals to cut cost.
Also arrested were 5 young boys, some were in their teens and early twenties who were presumed to have been used in impregnating the girls and other such girls who were brought into the place once the deal was struck and agreed on.
The premises being passed off to unsuspecting members of the public was instantly sealed off and security operatives stationed there on a round the clock basis presently, while a nationwide hunt for the proprietor/s has already begun.
The source noted the building and the business had remained under security surveillance for a long time before the DSS struck. It was disclosed that a manhunt has been launched for the runaway operator. Details of items recovered from the building were not made public but it was disclosed that some documents bearing some information were recovered.
