60-Year-Old Woman Allegedly Buys 5 Babies for N5 Million in Rivers

A 60-year-old woman, Asabi Adebayo, who allegedly bought 5 babies for N5 million in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State and brought them to Ibadan in preparation to fly them abroad for sale has been nabbed by the police in Oyo.

The Nation reports the suspect was said to have brought them to an orphanage in Ibadan to obtain a certified police report for them when the bubble burst.

Parading the suspect and babies yesterday at the Eleyele Police Headquarters, the state Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade, said the woman would have escaped if not for the initiative of officials of the orphanage, who reported at the Iyaganku police station.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Iyaganku, Mr Ojopagogo, said,

“A woman, who operates an orphanage came to our station last Thursday and reported to us that a 60-year-old woman came to them that she had five children and that she needed police report for the children to be flown abroad.

Our detectives, led by a Superintendent of Police (SP) from the Juvenile Welfare Section, went to arrest the suspect.

After her arrest, the suspect told us that she got the children for N5 million and that she bought the children from a woman in Port-Harcourt. We travelled with the suspect to Port-Harcourt, unfortunately we could not find the woman.”

However, contrary to her initial confession, the suspect, who said she is from Lagos State and also a British citizen, told Nigerian Tribune she didn’t buy the babies. She claimed,

“I had been looking for fruits of the womb for many years until I reached menopause. Over two years ago, someone introduced me to a woman at Ikorodu, Lagos State, who could facilitate pregnancy through herbal concoction, so I and other women went there and were given the concoction…

We took the concoctions for nine to 10 months before we delivered. For delivery, we were taken to Port Harcourt. I delivered twins from the first pregnancy over two years ago. I got pregnant the second time and had triplets about a year ago. I paid N1million for the treatment on each of the children. In total, I paid N5 million. I breast-fed my children for three months before weaning them as babies. ”

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Asked why she had to pay N1 million on each child since multiple births could come from any pregnancy, she claimed the woman who treated her told her ahead of delivery that she would pay according to the number of babies from each delivery.

She added that she took the police to the place she delivered the babies in Port Harcourt but the operators of the fertility clinic, a couple, were nowhere to be found. She added,

“I had been warned not to have children while I was abroad because of my health, so I had made up my mind to put them up for adoption so as to be free. I want to take them abroad so that they could enjoy the benefits I have overseas.

I came (to Ibadan) because the owner of an orphanage I approached said that if I wanted to get the children adopted, I would need to get a police report to take them out of Nigeria.”

The babies – two boys and three girls – are aged two years, eight months, seven months, six months and four months. They have reportedly been taken to the Child Welfare department of the Ministry of Women Affairs as the police continue their investigations.