Lagos police accuse Ogun pastor of selling 64 infants

A pastor on the Divine yard Deliverance Ministry in Iyana Iyesi, Ota, Ogun state, Peace Udoh, has been arrested by the police for allegedly jogging a baby factory within the church.



The 47-yr-antique become said to have offered sixty four toddlers before she become arrested on Sunday with the aid of operatives from the Lagos nation Police Command who acted on a tip-off.

Udoh became apprehended with one Angela Akpan and a nurse, Mrs. Bukola Ajala, who reportedly assisted in childbirth at Udoh’s church.



PUNCH Metro learnt that the pastor typically referred complicated instances to the nurse, whose health center – El Shaddai health facility – is placed a few metres far from the church.

Our correspondent amassed that Angela’s younger sister, 17-yr-vintage Goodnews Akpan, lately gave birth to a toddler on the clinic.

Angela, who turned into arrested on Saturday in the Sango vicinity, became stated to have led police operatives on Sunday to Udoh’s church and Ajala’s clinic, wherein they have been picked up respectively.

at the same time as parading the suspects on Monday at the Lagos country Police Command headquarters in Ikeja, the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, stated detectives swooped on the syndicate after receiving intelligence document that Udoh wanted a customer for Goodnews’ baby.

“The suspects run a child manufacturing unit in the Sango Ota vicinity. we are nonetheless operating to get sixty four other children she has offered out,” the CP brought.

but, the pastor, who hails from Akwa Ibom kingdom, refuted the allegation, pronouncing she used the church as a maternity home to assist her pregnant church members for a token.

She said, “i have been a pastor for thirteen years. I only assisted my church participants during childbirth. I take transport of 13 to fifteen babies each year and i have handled over 60 instances up to now. I don’t sell the toddlers.

“whenever i have a complex case, I refer the affected person to the nurse and we share the money she collects for the service. Angela brought her sister to me in July. She gave birth on November sixteen on the nurse’s sanatorium and she or he changed into discharged. i was surprised whilst the police got here to arrest me the previous day (Sunday).”

Ajala, the nurse, said she accumulated among N15,000 and N17,000 for each infant delivery, including that she didn’t know anything about selling of toddlers.

The 1/3 suspect, Angela, said, “i'm from Abak in Akwa Ibom. I took my sister from our village to the pastor whilst her pregnancy was four months. She became there till she gave start in November and i paid N17,000. I didn’t intend to promote her infant and i've in no way bought any baby earlier than.”

Goodnews, a secondary college dropout, advised our correspondent that she changed into now not privy to the plan to sell her child. She said she followed Angela to Lagos to keep away from being ridiculed within the village.

“I were given pregnant within the school however none of my boyfriends changed into inclined to take the responsibility for the pregnancy.

“My mom might now not permit me live along with her so I determined to follow my sister to Lagos,” she introduced.