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At least 24 suspects were arrested in connection with the illegal establishment.
Among those nabbed by the anti-trafficking detectives of the command included five pregnant women, five nursing mothers, five babies, two of which are less than a month old and eight men whose duty it was to impregnate the women.
Also, some guards of northern extraction were picked.
The arrest of the proprietor of the baby factory, Mrs Happiness Ogundeji, was after several months of intelligence gathering and discreet surveillance by officials of the command.
The suspects were paraded before newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Akure, yesterday, by the
state’s comptroller of NIS, Mr Musa Al-Hassan.
According to reports, the proprietor, Mrs Ogundeji had to relocate to Ondo State after she was arrested in Imo State for a similar offence.
Al-Hassan told newsmen that following a tip-off, the suspects were rounded up at their hideout by a combined team of his officers and military operatives.
According to him, the suspects had earlier resisted arrest following which they reinforced to effect the arrest.
Vanguard gathered that the illegal operation was being carried out at a well-secured two-flat apartment in the town.
The proprietor was said to have pretended that the baby factory was a natural healing home.
It was gathered that young girls between the ages of 19 and 25 were recruited into the home where some young men purposely work to impregnate them.
Once a girl is pregnant, she is separated from those yet to be impregnated.
After delivery, the girls are offered ridiculous amount, their babies taken from them.
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