Baby Makers At Nigerian Baby Making Factory Narrate Ordeal “Madam One Thousand Forced Us”

Forced Pregnancy Victims @ Nigerian Baby Making Factory In Imo State Narrate Ordeal

9 teenage girls who were forced into an untimely pregnancy at a
baby- making factory in Imo State on Friday have spoken up for the very first time on how they became victims.

The 9 innocent girls were arrested by the police yesterday after initially escaping during a raid of the ‘baby factory’.

According to The Nation, their arrest brings to 26 the number of victims rescued from Ahamefula Motherless Babies Home, Umuaka in Njaba Ciouncil Area of the state.
They are aged between 14 and 25.

The visibly exhausted girls told The
Nation that they were held against
their wish by the proprietor of the
so-called motherless babies home
simply known as Madam One
Thousand.

The victims are all from Imo. They said their parents were unaware of their whereabouts.

According to them, they were taken
to the ‘baby factory’ by scouts
engaged by Madam One Thousand.
The scouts include women who go
about seeking vulnerable girls.

17-year old Adaobi Akubueze ,until
her abduction a student in Lagos, said she referred to the centre by a
medical doctor who conducted a
pregnancy test on her.

She said:“ The result of the test was
positive and the doctor said I should
not abort the pregnancy. He said he
knew where I could go and have the
child with adequate maternal care
and where the baby would be taken
care of until I would be ready to take charge.

“So I ran away from home without
informing my parents. But on getting to the centre in Imo State, I was asked to produce my letter of introduction.

After that, my phone was taken away from me and that was how I stayed there till the Police came and arrested us.”

She said of conditions in the centre:
“We were kept in a crowded room
with little ventilation and a doctor
came once in a while to check us.
Nobody was allowed to go beyond
the first gate also known as the
Green Gate. And one boy who we
referred to as oga came around to
sleep with the girls, especially those
that were not yet pregnant.
“The compound was built in such a
way that made escape impossible. It is fenced with high walls and no visitor was allowed to come into the area where the girls were kept, except Madam, Oyibo and the doctor.

“After nine months, those who were due to be delivered were taken to another location and Madam would only bring back news to us that our friend had given birth.

But they never came back.

Another victim, Chinyere Onwuegbu, also 17, said she was living with her mother, a widow, until she ran away with one of her friends who convinced her that she could make a huge amount of money if she could be pregnant and sell the child after delivery.

Her words: “My friend brought me
here and she told me to stay and get pregnant. Madam promised to take good care of me and that she would give me N60,000 if I had a baby boy and N30,000 if it was a girl.

“ But after I was impregnated, Madam began to force me to work hard despite my condition. I cried everyday but no way to escape”.

From outside, the ‘baby factory’ looks very much like a pure water
production facility.

It sits on an expansive land and is
walled round.

The main building has several rooms secured with iron doors.
A neighbour, who volunteered
information on condition of
anonymity, said: “All we saw were
people coming to buy water but we
began to express worry when we
noticed flashy cars coming to the
place at nights.”

Investigation also revealed that the
owner of the ‘baby factory’ also runs a maternity home where the victims are taken to be delivered of their babies.

Oyibo, who was identified by the
girls as the one who impregnated
most of them, denied that he was
paid to impregnate them.

He said: “I was employed to work in
the pure water company, but I have
slept with most of the girls but not to impregnate them as reported.”

Who is Madam One Thousand?
It was gathered that Madam One
Thousand is no stranger to the police having been arrested by them at least twice before for a similar offence.

A source, who asked not to be named, said: “If the police are serious, they can arrest her; they know her identity. She has been in this trade for a long time. She even has medical doctors who work for her.

“Apart from that, since she also runs a registered maternity home, why can’t the police look in that direction and get her identity from the Ministry of Health that registered her clinic?”
Sources said she is at the head of a
syndicate that also includes doctors.

The doctors refer victims to her and
get paid accordingly.

Efforts to get the Commissioner of
Police, Mohammed Katsina, and the
Police Public Relations Officer, Joy
Elemoko, to comment on what
becomes of the girls were
unsuccessful as they did not pick calls to their handsets.

However, a reliable police source said the girls would be handed over to the Ministry of Women Affairs after proper documentation for adequate medical attention as some of them are ill.