By Philip Obaji, Jr.
The government of Africa’s most populous country is trying to crack down on this hideous trade, which may include the sale of children for use in rituals.
ENUGU, Nigeria — Eze, as we’ll call him, is an agent involved in Nigeria’s notorious baby trafficking ring. In a local restaurant in Nigeria’s southeastern city of Enugu, where dozens of people gather every evening to eat the city’s popular goat-meat pepper soup, and where all kinds of gossip can be heard, I overheard him talking to a middle-aged woman about the possibility of getting her a new-born child of any sex she requires.
I walked up to him after the woman had left, and sought to find out if he truly sells babies.
“Do you want a baby fresh from the womb?” he asked me.
He thought I wanted to buy a baby, but in fact I was on a fact-finding mission.
Eze claimed to be able to get me babies in less than 24 hours. He said that a baby, due to be born in a couple of days, was meant to go to a couple in Sweden but could be mine if I paid the cash in full immediately.
“We’ll get another baby for this couple. They won’t even notice we’ve given them something else,” he said.
I then told Eze I wanted to be taken to the factory, to be sure if the business was genuine before saying anything.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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