SSS Rescues 16 Pregnant Girls From Abia Baby Factory

The State Security Service(SSS) has rescued about 16 pregnant persons who are indigenes of Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Abia, and Imo states from a Non Governmental Organization (Home Cross Foundation International) located at Aba and arrested the man in charge.

Meanwhile in a press statement issued out by

Mathew Obodochi of the State Security Service, Abia,”the command is using this opportunity to urge members of the public to desist from encouraging pregnant ladies to go to baby factories, and warn those hiding under NGOs to perpetrate modern form of slave trade to desist from such illegalities as security agencies will stop at nothing to ensure that they are apprehended and made to face the law”

“It is unfortunate that some persons hide under the cover of Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to perpetrate various forms of illegal activities,” Obodoechi lamented, urging members of the public to desist from encouraging pregnant ladies to go to baby factories for whatever reason, whether financial or otherwise.

“Members of the public are urged once more to continue to give useful information on criminal elements in their midst to security agents for public good,” he said.

The 16 pregnant ladies were arrested at No. 3 Anyamele Street, off Nicholas Avenue, in Umungasi area of Aba, in a building that housed one Non-Governmental Organization called Home Cross Foundation International, the director said.

Obodoechi said further that the 16 girls were kept in a very unhygienic environment. Those found in the home were between 17 and 37 years and were at various stages of pregnancy. The foundation, which keeps pregnant ladies who upon delivery are given paltry sum of N50,000.00 and sent away while their babies are sold to people from different parts of the country is run by one Dr Hyacinth, who the command arrested this morning .

Speaking to newsmen while he was being paraded , Dr Hyacinth said his foundation was duly registered with Ministry of Women Affairs and he did not see himself as somebody doing anything illegal.

he said the first time he was arrested in 2004 by the police, he went to court against the police and NAPTIP and was awarded N4million damages, which he said the authorities were yet to pay to him.

He said his NGO was only rendering assistance and helping victims of unwanted pregnancy under “operation nurse your baby” and vehemently denied the allegation of any involvement in child trafficking.