The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has rescued five pregnant teenagers inside a baby factory in Imo State.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said operatives of the agency rescued the victims in the baby factory located along the Aba-Owerri expressway on Wednesday, September 13, following a tip off.
According to Babafemi, the victims were picked up while being relocated from their hideout in the Naze area of Owerri to Ikenegbu area of Owerri, the state capital.
“The victims include Chioma Emmanuel, 15; Uma Faith, 15; Divine Adimonye, 17; Opara Gift, 15; and Amarachi Mbata, 16. In their statements, they claimed they didn’t know the men who impregnated them,” the agency spokesman said.
“The Imo State command of the agency has since been directed to hand them over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, for further investigations,” Babafemi noted.
