The General
Overseer of Liberation Ministry, Pastor Sunday Chinedu (33) also has narrated
to operatives of the Operatives
of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) how
he became entangled in the selling of unborn babies syndicate in Delta State.
Chinedu
was arrested along with Madam Isioma Uko, Mr Adagbo Samuel aka Baba, a Chief
Medical Director and owner of Ndu Hospital and mortuary located in Delta State.
Others are Vera Emenike aka Vivian, Monday Joy, Faith Yusuf Desmond and Friday,
a panel beater.
The
syndicate was busted after IRT operatives, led by a Deputy Commissioner of
Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, received information on the illegal activities going
in the hospital and embarked on surveillance that ran into weeks. When the
operatives were sure that their information was correct, they stormed the hospital.
A police
source said: “The syndicate is using the hospital to engage in human
trafficking and operation of illegal orphanage, otherwise known as baby
factory. The Syndicate gets girls, mostly under aged pregnant and then the
girls would then be lured to the hospital, which has been turned into an
illegal orphanage. The syndicate harvest babies when their young mothers are
just six months gone. Once the babies are brought out, they are put in
incubators and then sold when they are nine months old.”
Chinedu said: “After I struggled to
finish my secondary school, I could not proceed to university due to my family
poor background. I decided to go into bricklaying, which I did to support
myself and my family before I met late Austine Odinma who happen to be a pastor
at Christ Living Faith Church. He asked me to stay with him, so that I will be
close to God. I was with him but he could not teach me the work of God or the
art of being a pastor before he died. After his death, his wife sent us out of
his house; that was before I got married. I used to ride a motorcycle become I
founded my own church.
“Police arrested me because I did business
with Samuel, who we call Baba. The business involved buying of babies. I
brought a girl from Edo State to Samuel. The girl is a prostitute, who got
pregnant and wanted to get rid of it. The pregnancy was six months gone when
she came to my church to ask if I knew where abortion could be carried out. I
got to know her during my commercial cycling days.
“While she
was talking to me and crying, a woman walked into my church. She asked why the
girl was crying and I explained. She told me she would give me a man’s number,
that the man was a doctor. I collected the man’s number, called him, and he
directed me to his place. When we got there, he gave her two options; either to
abort the foetus or sell the baby after birth. The lady chose the second
option. When the lady gave birth, the doctor called and showed me N300, 000. He
took N50, 000, which he said was his share and then gave me N30, 000, while the
rest of the money was given to the lady.
“Three
months later, the lady brought her friend to Baba for the same solution.”
According to
Chinedu, another pregnant lady he took to Dr. Samuel is called Christabel.
After the operation, money exchanged hands. Everyone involved in the
transaction collecting money, including him and Christabel.
He said: “The first time Christabel
came to meet me for help was inn June 17, 2015. On June 28, 2015, Christabel
returned with one of her friends. The friend came with a young man, whom she
claimed was her husband. We all went to Samuel’s house, on getting there;
Samuel gave us an outpatient card for the lady. She would later deliver a baby
girl. Samuel repeated the same method of which he took N50, 000 and gave me
N30, 000 and handed over the balance to the lady. Another time, my phone rang
and it was a lady. She told me that she got my phone number from Christabel.
She told me that Christabel has travelled out of Nigeria. I took her to Samuel’s house and on getting
there; the man told us that the pregnancy was not matured enough, that the lady
would remain with him before he could deliver her.
“After a month and two weeks, I
called Samuel and asked him how things were going over there, he then told me
that the lady had delivered and gone back. I asked him why they didn’t give me
my own share of the money, Samuel told me that he had given the lady all the
money, So forgot about it. The total children Samuel bought through me were
three. I’m a pastor, but my grandfather was a native doctor before he
died. When my grandfather was alive, he
used to send me to the bush to get him some herbs which he uses for ritual.
When I got my own church, I started using those herbs and added candle and
anointing oil to solve people’s problem.”
Another alleged member of the
syndicate is Joy, alleged to have sold her baby for N50, 000.
According to Joy, she was arrested
because, “I sold my six months old baby. The person that assisted me with the
transaction is Dr. Samuel. I was directed to Samuel by Favour (Christabel), but
she had since travelled out.”
She narrated: “I was arrested
because I sold a baby; yes it's true; I went to a woman called Vivian who lives
in Agbor Obi in Delta State. One Favour whose other surname was not known to me
directed me to Samuel to go and abort or sell my baby. I went to Agbor and one
of the nurses checked me and said that my pregnancy was six months. She said
she would pay me N50, 000. I told her that the money was too small, and she
said that was what she could pay. She then gave me injection to induce labour.
“After the injection, the baby came
out and it was a baby boy. She paid me the money and I rested before I returned
back to my house. The place I put to bed is one room with small mattress. The
woman told me that she runs an orphanage home in that place. I left and never
asked if the baby survived it or not. I know that it's an offence to sell a
child, but I was not doing it deliberately, I did it under a spell. I sold a
baby only once. The money made from the business cannot be used for something
good. If the police can help me to recover the baby, and he is in good health,
I will collect it and take care of my baby as a mother. Now I realized that
what I was doing wasn't good and I have decided to beg for forgiveness from
God.”
Joy disclosed that there was a
certain lady, who used to supply Samuel pregnant girls and another supplier of
pregnant ladies was Pastor Chinedu. She claimed that most of the pregnant
ladies that the Pastor brought to Samuel were members of his church.
She said: “There’s a particular lady
used to come from Ekpoma in Edo State. She brings the pregnant girls to the
doctor and only when they were at the point of delivery. Most times, the girls
would have put to bed before they got to the doctor. There was a time three
people came to collect babies. The pastor brings his church members, according
to what I heard, he also does spiritual works. No, it is only once I collected
the money. The second baby was mine; I didn’t sell the baby because I had a
miscarriage. The first baby I sold was for N50, 000.”
Joy, who said that she didn’t live
with her parents, explained that she lived with the one Nkiruka’s family, who
became like a sister to her.
She said: “It was Nkiruka’s parents
that trained me. I knew them when I was little and I took them as my family. My
dad is late, but I heard my mother is in Lagos. My mother and I had issues; I
was angry with her because she caused all the problems I’m going through today.
She did not treat me well as a child that was the reason I ran to Nkiruka’s
house. And throughout my stay with them, they never treated badly.”
Another suspect is Faith Desmond,
who said that in 2019 April, she travelled to her friend’s house, Charity,
living in Asaba Delta State, where she first met Joy.
She recalled that Joy asked her if
she was married and she said no. Joy further asked her if she was pregnant, to
which she also replied yes. Desmond said: “Joy asked me where my boyfriend
live, I said Benin. She then collected
my phone number and later invited me to the village in Benin. When I got there,
I met Samuel, who everyone calls Baba. After the introduction, Baba asked me
how many months was my pregnancy.”
Desmond said that after she was
arrested by police, Joy told her not to implicate Samuel.
Desmond said: “Baba told Joy to tell
me if any person asked about me, I should tell them that I was Baba’s sister-in-law.
I don't have any relationship with Samuel. I was not even aware that Samuel was
into selling of babies or was running a baby factory. I had a baby girl before.
My first husband stays in Abuja, but I do not know his house. My daughter is with
my sister in Plateau State. I never knew
that Samuel even had a mortuary, but I know that he normally says that he has a
clinic. I have never sold any body. It was at the police station that I got to
know that Joy has been selling babies before. Joy confessed before us that she
has sold babies before to Samuel, that he paid her N50, 000 in Benin. It was
also when we got to the station that I knew he had an ambulance inside his
compound.”
Mrs. Isioma, a nurse lives at
Oweriorubur: agent of buyers. She is the person who carries the baby to unknown
persons and sells them. She does buying and selling.
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