The Ondo State Police Command says it has uncovered a suspected child manufacturing facility and human trafficking syndicate working inside Ore, Odigbo Native Authorities Space of the state.
The police spokesperson, Olayinka Ayanlade, stated this in a press release on Sunday.
He stated the case, transferred from the Ore Division to the Command’s Gender-Primarily based Violence Unit, is below energetic investigation.
“The incident got here to mild on the twenty first of October, 2025, at about 1950hrs, when one Vivian Peter, a 17-year-old woman from Ikot Ekpan, Akwa Ibom State, who’s presently pregnant, reported at Ore Division that she had been trafficked from Akwa Ibom to Ore below the guise of being supplied a job alternative,” the assertion learn.
“Upon her arrival in Ore, she was taken to a supposed clinic, which later turned out to be a child manufacturing facility, the place she met different pregnant ladies allegedly being held for exploitation.
“She additional revealed that the proprietor of the power, recognized as one Ada Clement ‘F’, later instructed that she be taken to a different hospital in Ore for a medical scan. Nonetheless, she escaped and sought refuge at Ore Division, the place she reported the incident to the police.”
Mr Ayanlade stated the police, appearing swiftly on the report, police operatives from Ore Division, in collaboration with the Gender Unit, raided the stated facility, resulting in the profitable rescue of 5 pregnant ladies and a child boy.
“It was found that one of many victims had already given delivery and is presently receiving post-natal therapy on the Normal Hospital, Ore, whereas the remaining rescued victims are in secure protecting custody of the Police,” he additional stated.
In line with the police, preliminary investigation revealed that the prime suspect, Ada Clement, and her accomplices have confessed to the crime, admitting that the power was getting used as a child manufacturing facility, the place younger pregnant ladies have been stored till they delivered, after which their infants have been offered to people searching for kids.
Mr Ayanlade additional revealed that the infants have been offered for ₦400,000 and above for feminine kids, and ₦600,000 and above for male kids, respectively.
“The Commissioner of Police, CP Adebowale Lawal, psc(+), mnips, has ordered a complete and discreet investigation into the case to make sure that all members of the trafficking ring are apprehended and prosecuted accordingly,” the assertion stated.
The assertion famous that frantic efforts are ongoing to arrest different fleeing members of the syndicate, who’re at present being trailed by detectives from the command’s Gender-Primarily based Violence Unit.
In the meantime, the command additionally introduced the smashing of a kidnapping gang infamous for terrorising travellers alongside main highways within the South-west.
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Mr Ayanlade stated one Abdullahi Ibrahim, aged 20, and resident in Ore, was apprehended by officers of the Command following credible intelligence.
“Upon interrogation, the suspect made a confessional assertion admitting to being a part of a kidnapping gang chargeable for a number of abductions alongside the Benin–Ore Expressway in addition to different prison actions on the Sagamu–Lagos Expressway,” he stated.
“He additional confessed that the gang’s operations minimize throughout a number of states within the southern area of Nigeria, working strategically alongside state traces to evade detection.
“His confession offered useful leads that guided operatives of the State Anti-Kidnapping Part (SAKS), Akure, to Benin Metropolis, Edo State, the place two extra suspects linked to the syndicate have been arrested.”
He stated the suspects are at present in custody and helping investigators with info geared toward monitoring down different members of the gang believed to be working between Lagos and Edo States.
