Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of two persons suspected to be kidnappers and the rescue of 4 pregnant girls in a baby factory in Anambra state.

 According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Haruna Mohammed, the four girls were from Ebonyi state, and they had been kept in a brothel in Nnewi by one Gladys Ikegwuonu, now at large, for the purpose of making babies for sale.

Mohammed said, “It would be recalled that there was a report at the Area Command Headquarters, Nnewi, that a four-year-old child of St Joseph’s School, Otolo Nnewi, was returning home from school in the company of his siblings when two men on a motorcycle grabbed the child and zoomed off with him.

“The child was rescued by some commercial motorcyclists who pursued and eventually arrested the suspects at Akamili Community, Nnewi.

“Preliminary investigations by the police revealed that the suspects who were beaten to stupor by an angry mob (one of whom was confirmed dead), were sent by one Gladys Nworie Ikegwuonu, presently at large, who also operates a baby factory and a brothel by keeping young girls and getting them impregnated after which she sells the children to her waiting customers.”

Mohammed disclosed that two suspects, Abuchi Ani, 32, of Ohazora, Ebonyi State, and Emeka Ikegwuonu, 49, of Akabukwu, Nnewi, Anambra State, had been arrested in that respect.

He added, “Four pregnant young girls were rescued as follows: Chisom Okoye, 20, of Mgbaneze Isu, Onicha LGA; Chinecherem Clement, 18, of Agbaebo Isu of Onicha LGA; Blessing Ogbonna, 21 of Nkwagu Isu of Onicha LGA; Blessing Njoku, 21, of Mgbaneze Isu of Onicha LGA, all of Ebonyi State, but residing at Cool Joint bar Nnewi.”

Mohammed said the Command was intensifying efforts to arrest the principal suspect, one Gladys Nworie Ikegwuonu, of Ohaozora, Ebonyi State, in order to bring her and other accomplices to Justice.