June 25, (THEWILL) – Troops of the Nigerian Army have uncovered a baby factory in a border settlement between the Nigeria-Cameroon border in Adamawa State and arrested seven suspects.
The Brigade Commander, 23 Armoured Brigade Yola, Major General Mohammed Jibrin-Gambo, who paraded the suspects on Saturday, at the brigade headquarters in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, said they were arrested during the operation on June 23.
Jibrin-Gambo said the troops also rescued 17 teenage girls and two babies.
According to him, acting on credible information, troops of the Brigade, in a special operation on the border area between Nigeria and Cameroon, stormed the enclave of criminals at the outskirts of Kasingila village in Maiha Local Government Area of Adamawa.
Jibrin-Gambo said the suspects were apprehended in a border settlement less than a kilometre from the Belel district, the last community before entering the Cameroon Republic.
The operation involved a joint team of security forces, who rescued 17 girls between the ages of 19 to 21 years and two babies.
They were said to be operating a brothel, human trafficking joint and baby factory.
Speaking with newsmen, the leader of the camp, Abubakar Abdullahi, said he got the girls from Adamawa, Gombe and Borno States where he established the camp used as a dance club, prostitution and sales of babies delivered by the girls within Nigeria and across the border of Cameroon.
The rescued girls said to have been in the camp for about two to three years, were recruited as minors and brought to the camp without the knowledge of their families.
Some of the victims said they were accommodated in a single room and slept on mats. They also claimed that the money realised was held back by their captors so that they cannot escape.
The girls were also used to performing during wedding occasions and naming ceremonies within Nigeria and Cameroon, mostly among criminal gangs operating in the area.
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