Charity home in Aba specializing in baby selling busted

A charity home specialising in the selling of babies have been busted in Abia State.
Chief Lilian Nma Achumba, 52, who runs the charity home in Aba where babies are harvested for sale was arrested alongside two accomplices, 44 year old Emmanuel Chigozie Elesuwa and 33 year-old Chioma David.
Police said the gang sell the baby for as much as N700,000 each to willing buyers, even across the border in Benin Republic.
According to The Nation, Chief Superintendent of police, Aremu Adeniran, who is the deputy force public relations officer unveiled the three-person gang in Abuja Friday.
35 pregnant girls and six children and a day old baby were said to have been found at the Nma Charity and Rehabilitation Centre, Umunkpeyi, Isiala Ngwa South Local Government in Abia, when police investigating team stormed the charity home.
The team was led there by two of the suspects, initially arrested at the Idi-Iroko border in Ogun state on 20 July. They were caught with two newly-born babies, meant for smuggling for sale in Benin Republic.
Upon interrogation, the two suspects confessed they bought the babies at N350,000 each at Nma Charity home and they were taking them to Benin to sell at N700,000 each.
The police spokesman said 28 of the 36 pregnant girls or women and three children found at the Nma charity home, have been handed over to the Ministry of Strategy and Social Development, Umuahia, Abia State and all have since been re-united with their families after receiving medical attention.
Achumba who confessed to the police during interrogation also revealed she has other branches of the orphanage in Port-harcourt and some other parts of the country.