Hyacinth Chinweuba
The Inspector- General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Led by DCP Abba Kyari has uncovered a Church in Port Harcourt, Rivers State running babies factory.
According to the police, the syndicate which operates from the Church in Rumuolumili area of the state, specialised in selling day-old babies to prospective buyers.
The IRT in the operation rescued three newborn babies, their mothers and three pregnant teenagers during the operation.
The Church, Grate Mercy Deliverance Ministry, located at 3, Giwa Street in Rumuolumili area of Port Harcourt is owned by a couple, identified as Chidi Martins and Maureen Martins.
The couple was alleged to have been in the business of scouting across Rivers, Abia, Akwa-Ibom, and Imo States for pregnant teenagers who couldn’t care for their pregnancies.
They allegedly deceive their victims with promises that they would provide accommodation, feeding and maternity care for them, in addition to sending them back to reunite with their families after their delivery.
However, after they have been delivered of their babies, the couple would sell the babies to waiting buyers.
Thereafter, they would tell the mother that their babies died at childbirth.