A baby factory operating under the guise of being an orphanage in Ile-Ife has been discovered by the Osun State government.
Reports reveal that 47 children were evacuated from the building where women are impregnated and their babies sold off by operators.
Among the women rescued at the facility was an undergraduate. The place, identified as Oroyemi Elizabeth Covenant Home and Care Center, has been sealed by the state government.
The Women, Children and Social Affairs Commissioner in Osun State, Olubukola Olaboopo, led other ministry officials and the police in sealing off the facility.
Olaboopo disclosed that the government got reports on the happenings in the building over a period of three to four years suggesting that there were illegal activities happening there.
She said:
“We have gotten several reports over a period of 3-4 years, reporting how the children in Oroyemi Elizabeth Covenant Home and Care Centre are malnourished and the environment have been very dirty and how some illegal activities have been going on more or less like a baby factory and many more allegations.
We rescued 47 children; 10-15 adults girls are there. Those with physical disabilities, among whom is an undergraduate of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, were among those that were rescued. Most of them were crying, they refused to follow us but we were able to take three of them.
As at this (yesterday) morning, the matron who is taking care of those adults just told me that it seems two of them are brea$tfeeding. When we interrogated them, they said they have never given birth to a child. So it means that we want to know who got them pregnant when they are not married.
How come they are pregnant? So there are so many things underneath and the state government is still investigating.”
