This archive report was first published on 3 October 2019.
On Wednesday, police in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, discovered another illegal maternity unit where captives were impregnated and forced to give birth to babies for sale.
The revelation came just days after police rescued 19 expectant mothers from similar facilities in another area of the city.
According to Lagos police spokesman Bala Elkana, officers received a tip-off about seven pregnant women waiting at a bus stop and went to pick them up.
After interrogation, the women said they were among 20 women who had been made pregnant in the home and all of them had escaped on Monday night.
Elkana described the Isolo home as 'a detention centre where young women are made pregnant to have babies who are later sold.'
He said the police were on the trail of those behind 'this inhuman and heinous crime.'
So-called 'baby factories' are notorious in Nigeria, where most of the population of 200 million live in poverty.
On September 19, police raided four buildings used as illegal maternity units in the city and rescued 19 pregnant women and girls and four babies.
