Christiana D’ivoire Iyama and Margaret Ogwu, have been arrested by the police in Ogun State for running a baby factory.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the police spokesperson disclosed in a statement on Monday in the state that the police had stormed the factory located at No 4 on Ibrahim Famuyiwa Street, Agbado in Ifo LGA.
He said the suspects were arrested following information received by police at Agbado Division that the first suspect was operating a baby factory where she concealed girls and hired men to impregnate them.
He explained that upon delivery the woman would take possession of the babies and sell them at N400,000 each to her waiting buyers.
Oyeyemi said, “Preliminary investigation revealed that Margaret Ogwu was one of the girls harboured by Christiana D’ivoire who employed the services of a man to impregnate her and collected the child on delivery, which she sold at the rate of N400,000 to one of her customers.”
The police spokesman further said Christiana D’ivoire confessed that “she has sold up to three children from different women to her customers.”