The Ondo State Police Command has uncovered a suspected child manufacturing facility and human trafficking syndicate working in Ore, Odigbo Native Council Space of the state.
The unlawful operation, which had reportedly been working for a while, was allegedly promoting infants for between ₦400,000 and ₦600,000.
Police spokesperson, Olayinka Ayanlade, mentioned the operation was uncovered following a report by a 17-year-old sufferer, Vivian Peter, who informed officers on the Ore Division that she had been trafficked from Akwa Ibom to Ore below the pretext of being supplied a job.
“Upon her arrival in Ore, she was taken to a supposed clinic that later turned out to be a child manufacturing facility, the place she met different pregnant ladies being held for exploitation,” Ayanlade mentioned.
“She revealed that the proprietor of the ability, recognized as one Ada Clement, later instructed that she be taken to a different hospital in Ore for a medical scan. Nonetheless, she managed to flee and reported the case to the police.”
Performing on the report, operatives from the Ore Division, in collaboration with the Gender Unit, raided the ability and rescued 5 pregnant ladies and a child boy.
“It was found that one of many victims had already given start and is receiving postnatal remedy on the Common Hospital, Ore, whereas the others are within the protected custody of the police,” Ayanlade added.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the prime suspect, Ada Clement, and her accomplices confessed to working a child manufacturing facility the place younger pregnant ladies had been saved till supply. The infants had been then offered for ₦400,000 and above for feminine kids and ₦600,000 and above for male kids.
In response, the Commissioner of Police, CP Adebowale Lawal, ordered a complete and discreet investigation to make sure that all members of the syndicate are apprehended and prosecuted.
He additionally confirmed that efforts had been ongoing to arrest different fleeing members of the trafficking ring, who’re presently being tracked by detectives from the Command’s Gender-Based mostly Violence Unit.
