Nine pregnant women have been rescued from a baby factory in Abuja.
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) spokesperson Mr Vincent Adekoye, stated on Thursday in Abuja.
Adekoye said it’s operatives rescued the women in the baby factory situated at one of the sprawling estates in Ushafa area in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
He said a concerned citizen had informed the agency about the factory which led to the raid on the facility.
He said the women were locked up in an apartment inside the estate by a yet-to-be-identified suspected trafficking agent, after they were recruited through an online platform.
Adekoye also said the Director-General of the Agency, Hajiya Binta Adamu-Bello, praised the judiciary, for convicting one Bishop Kenneth Duke.
Duke was said to have raped a 12-year-old girl, daughter of one of his church members, in Abuja.
