The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives in Imo state has patrolling successfully intercepted five pregnant teenage girls believed to be potential victims of child trafficking in a suspected “baby factory”.
The Agency said that the girls were intercepted along the Aba-Owerri Road on Wednesday, September 13.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi made this known in a statement on Sunday, September 17.
He said the victims include: 15 years old Chioma Emmanuel, 15 years old Uma Faith, 17 years old Divine Adimonye, 15 years old Opara Gift, and 16 years old Amarachi Mbata.
The Agency stated that the girls were being relocated from their hideout in the Naze area of Owerri to Ikenegbu area of the state capital when they were intercepted.
The girls, in their statements, claimed they did not know the men who impregnated them.
Babafemi said the Imo state command of the Agency has since been directed to hand them over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for further investigations.
