Welcome to baby-selling home where a girl is called Pink, boy Blue

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Some of the babies suspected to have been sold

The baby market is so organised that babies are taken there from different parts of the country. They are not taken there for treatment or schooling, but for sale.
And this is for a sum that the founder of the market believes is good enough for her business. The latest she carried a transaction on went for N500,000.
One other novel thing about the babies home located in Ejigbo, Lagos, is that boys and girls get coded names. While a girl is called Pink, a boy is Blue.
As lucrative as the business has been to Florence Douglas however, she seems to have reached the end of the road.
The reason is that the syndicate has been busted by the police.
According to Bala Elkana, spokesperson of the state police command, on August 26 at about 3.30pm, a police officer attached to the Motor traffic Division of Ejigbo Police Division while controlling traffic at Jakande Gate, Ejigbo, noticed a sort of commotion close to her traffic point.
A report on the matter added:
She intervened and discovered that the brouhaha was about a 24 year old lady named Gift Michael who was found with a suspected new born baby.

With her was her ‘madam’, one Florence Nkem Douglas aged 50yrs, both of Ijegun area of Isheri. They were about to be mobbed due to the alarm raised by those who had been trailing the duo from their residence in Ijegun as the whole community had been suspecting them for long for being in the business of buying and selling of babies in their Maternity Clinic.
The two above mentioned women with the baby were rescued and taken to the Ejigbo Divisional Police Headquarters where an in-depth investigation revealed that the said Florence Douglas, a native of Igueben in Edo State, who is not a registered Nurse, operates two Maternity Clinic named Flofidel Clinic and Maternity Homes with branches in Shosanya Street, I82, Ijegun road and Okunola Ijagemo areas.

On interrogation, Florence admitted to have been in the business of selling babies for a while. She revealed that a baby girl is referred to as “PINK” while a baby boy is called “BLUE”; and are both referred to as “MARKET” . She further confessed that the Male baby found in their custody at Jakande gate Ejigbo, suspected to be a week old was brought to her from Gombe, enroute Akure and was to be sold for N500,000.00.

The rescued baby who appeared sick with symptoms suspected to be jaundice was promptly taken to hospital for medical attention.

Pictures of about 50 different babies suspected to have already been sold off were found on the phones of the suspects.

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