Baby Factory Controversy: Orphanage Home Indicts Police - Slams N100 Million Lawsuit

The management of Ahamefule Hospital and Orphanage Home has accused the Imo Police Commissioner, Mohammed Musa Kastina, of willfully lying and misleading the public that the orphanage and hospital was into child trafficking. This is just as the management has slammed a N100 million lawsuit against the police command for alleged defamation and illegally invading the premises of the establishments.

Addressing newsmen in Owerri, Chief B. Okemili, the legal adviser of Ahamefule Hospital stated that the Imo State police commissioner in a desperate bid to impress the public had willfully “lied” to mislead the people into believing that the hospital facility and the orphanage home were involved in child trafficking.

He maintained that the motherless babies’ home was duly registered in 2006 by the Imo State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development with registration number 0691, alleging that prior to the invasion of the facility by the police, the police command had always sent young pregnant girls and abandoned babies to the orphanage to be cared for. Past administrators and governors of the state and their wives had at one time or the other visited Ahamefule Motherless Babies’ Home and made donations to enhance the welfare of the inmates.

This is contrary to the misinformation of the Imo police commissioner; the orphanage does not sell babies or adults and is not a hotel or brothel.” Okemili further pointed out that up till two months ago the Imo police command sent young pregnant girls and rescued abandoned babies to be cared for by the motherless babies’ home. “The Imo police command has severally sent abandoned babies and pregnant young girls to the home up till about two months ago. Again, last year October 25, the same police command, which is now alleging that the Ahamefule Hospital and Motherless Babies’ Home had sent five young pregnant girls, namely Nkiru, Gift, Amaka, Eberechi and Patricia, who the police command said were rescued from an illegal motherless home suspected to be engaged in child trafficking.

So it is strange that the same police now claims that the home is into child trafficking without any proof to support its claims.” Meanwhile, Okemili stated that the management had already filed a suit against the Imo police command for unlawful invasion of the business premises of Ahamefule Hospital and the Motherless Babies’ Home, the forceful ejection of workers and illegally detaining them, the carting away of the hospital equipment worth several millions of naira, as well as sealing off the private residence of the director of Ahamefule Hospital and Motherless Babies’ Home, Chief Comfort Ahamefule.