The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 50-year-old Oby George for feeding desperate barren with seeds which made them to look pregnant and later steal babies to hand over to them after a ‘cooked up labour’ and ‘delivery.’
It was gathered that once these desperate,
aging, barren women go to George, believing she had herbs which could defy
medicine and make them pregnant and have normal babies, she would give them
some mysterious seeds and herbs to be taking orally.
The seed
will make their stomachs and legs to begin to swell, which many of them
believed are really signs of pregnancy.
George would
warn them never to go for scan or visit any hospital for check up or
ante-natal. She was also the person who would tell them when they were due for
delivery.
On delivery
day, she would give them another seed, which would make them to start vomiting
and going to the toilet, after wards she would ask them to lie on table and to
start pushing because the baby was already coming.
Just to make them believe that their babies
were coming; George would push a fist into their private and would keep
shouting at them to push. It was gathered that some of the women used to lose
consciousness during the supposed ‘labour,’ apparently due to the seed they had
ingested earlier and weakness from incessant vomiting and stooling.
To drive home the point that they had actually
delivered, she would slice their private parts with blade, so that they would
see blood when they recovered their wits. The women would later be compelled to
use pad after the ‘labour’ and ‘delivery.’
Many of
these women are believed to have gone to their various churches to testify how
God visited and blessed with the fruit of the wombs like God did for Hannah in
the Bible.
Most of the
babies which are given to these women are believed to have been stolen or
bought from ‘baby factories’ in eastern part of the country.
Victims are
charged according to the sex or number of babies they wanted. Twins go for
N1.5million and triplets for N2.7million
Though
George lives in Port Harcourt and was arrested in Port Harcourt, but most of
her victims seem to be from Lagos State.
George was
arrested after one of her victims, Desope Cecelia, 61, who honestly believed
she had delivered a set of twin boys, went to a health centre at Festac area
for a medical checkup.
The doctor
on duty had taken one look at the 61-year-old woman and concluded she could not
have bore the twin.
He had
immediately alerted area E policemen, Festac. A team of Policemen, led by the
area commander, ACP. Dan Okoro had invited Cecilia to the station for
questioning. And for hours, Cecilia insisted that she had actually delivered
the kids herself.
It took the frank
confession of George to convince Cecilia that she had been hood winked by
fraudsters.
Narrating
how she was duped, Cecilia, who was said to have broken down in tears after
George’s confession, said: “It was one lady who told me about Oby’s ability to
help women like me get pregnant. She gave me Oby’s phone number; I called her
and explained that I was looking for the fruit of the womb. Though I live in
Lagos, but I spoke with Oby through phone. She asked to come over to Port
Harcourt.
“She said
she would give me a seed and herbs to help me conceive. She charged me N1.5
million. I asked for twins, boys. She said I must not go for scan or hospital.
She told me that my babies are miracle ones, thus hospital can’t carry out
their delivery. When it was nine months, she said I should come again to Port
Harcourt to deliver.
“At Port
Harcourt, she gave me another seed to eat. I started going to toilet. Later she
asked me to lie down on the delivery table. She said I should begin to push. I
pushed with all my power. Later I heard the cries of a baby. She asked me to
push again, I pushed again and heard cries of another baby. I went to hospital
with my babies in Lagos and I don’t even know why police arrested me.”
When police
raided the delivery home at Port Harcourt, two other victims were seen.
One of them,
Joy Ibe, 43, said she had been searching for a baby for over 18 years now. When
she met Oby, she thought her troubles were over.
When Ibe
presented herself, she looked pregnant, what with her swollen stomach and legs.
Explaining
that she lives in Ajah area of Lagos, Ibe said that one of her neighbours,
living overseas gave her Oby’s phone number.
“When I
called Oby, she asked me to come down to Port Harcourt. She gave me two herbs
and seed. On the day that police arrested me there, she actually asked me to come
so that she would check if I was due. I paid N2.7 million for triplets and the
treatment. My stomach became swollen and
my legs. Even my clothes could no longer fit me. I believed I was pregnant. I
was given the impression that I must not go for scan.”
Building her
own defence, Oby denied knowing where the babies were brought from. She claimed
that it was one Helene Okoro, who used to bring the babies. She further said
that her role in the scam was only to provide her home as the delivery place
for the ‘babies.’
She further
said that one Mr. and Mrs. Tella were also involved. They were actually the
people who first sent Cecilia to her.
“The Tellas
were the ones treating her before they brought her to my home. They said they
wanted her to deliver in my house. They later told me that Helene Okoro would
come over to my house for the delivery of Cecilia’s babies. When I saw Okoro,
she told me that she could not use her home for the delivery because her
husband is a pastor. It is Okoro who usually arranged and brought the babies.
On the delivery day, Okoro gave Cecilia something to drink. I was there. It was
also Okoro who used blade to cut her private part so that blood would come to
show that she had delivered.”
Police
spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, said police were still working to arrest other
fleeing members of the dastardly syndicate. She added: “This is the latest
trend in town now. All barren women or women seeking for fruits of the wombs
should hold onto God. People like Oby are still out there.”
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