By RFPosted on 03-10-2019Modified on 03-10-2019 at 13:01
Police in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, announced on Wednesday it had discovered a new illegal maternity hospital. Women were pregnant and forced to give birth to babies for sale.
It was from intelligence that the police found the seven young women. Aged 13 to 27, they were waiting at a bus stop. Agents have recovered them.
When questioned, they then explained that they were a group of 20 to have been pregnant . They lived until then in a house in the district of Isolo, a popular neighborhood near Lagos International Airport.
The 20 women have escaped, but 13 are not yet localized, according to Bala Elkana, spokesman for the Lagos police. Sponsors and organizers of this baby-selling channel would be actively sought after, according to the police.
A precedent a few days ago
The announcement came days after the police reportedly rescued 19 pregnant women from similar settlements in another part of the city.
With more than 20 million people, Lagos is now a land of human traffickers, who pretend to work and live better to attract the victims.
Like the country as a whole, the economic capital has a majority of people living on less than $ 2 a day. Well established locally, with ramifications outside the country, these networks take advantage of this context of poverty to feed illegal channels of adoption of children .
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