A one-week-old baby has been recovered from a baby sellers’ syndicate.
The feat was achieved in Lagos following the attention paid to happenings around her by a Police Officer attached to the Motor Traffic Division of Ejigbo Police Division.
According to available information, on August 26, 2019 at about 3:30pm, the Police Officer while controlling traffic at Jakande Gate, Ejigbo noticed a commotion close to her traffic point.
She intervened and discovered that the brouhaha was about a lady named Gift Michael, 24, found with a suspected new born baby.
In her company was her “madam”, one Florence Nkem Douglas, 50, both of Ijegun area of Isheri, also in Lagos State.
They were about to be mobbed due to the alarm raised by those who had been trailing the duo from their residence in Ijegun as the whole community had been suspecting them for long of being in the business of buying and selling of babies in their Maternity Clinic, but for the timely intervention of the Traffic Police Woman.
Michaela and Douglas with the baby were rescued to Ejigbo Divisional Police Headquarters, where indepth investigation was conducted.
The investigation revealed that the said Douglas, a native of Igueben in Edo State, who is not a registered Nurse, operates two Maternity Clinics: Flofidel Clinic and Maternity Homes, with branches at Shosanya Street; I82, Ijegun Road; and Okunola Ijagemo.
On interrogation, Douglas admitted to have been in the business of sales of babies for a while.
She revealed that a baby girl is referred to as “PINK” while a baby boy is called “BLUE”.
Both referred to as “MARKET”.
She further confessed that the male baby found in their custody at Jakande gate, Ejigbo, suspected to be a week old, was brought to her from Gombe State through Akure in Ondo State and was to be sold for N500,000.
The rescued baby, who appeared sick with symptoms suspected to be jaundice, was promptly taken to hospital for medical attention.
Pictures of about 50 different babies were found on the phone of the suspect.
The babies were suspected to have already been sold off.
Babies are usually sold for between N500,000 and N1 million, depending on their sex.
The Commissioner, Lagos State Police Command, Zubairu Muazu, has ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba to take over the investigation and ensure that other members of the syndicate are apprehended.
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