Monday, June 22, 2026 - The police in Rivers state have uncovered a hospital where child trafficking occurs in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
According to the police, on June 12, operatives of the Force
Intelligence Department stormed the facility after receiving intelligence about
crime being committed in the facility.
The police say some mothers had come forward to express
doubts over the hospital's claims that the babies they delivered in the
facility passed away.
The police then sent in undercover officers who were able to
expose the crime being committed in the facility. According to the police,
babies ddelivered at the hospital were secretly taken away and trafficked,
while the mothers were deceive into believing that their newborns d!ed during
childbirth.
During the raid at the hospital, a bucket with an embalmed
baby was discovered in the medical director, 66-year-old, Elizabeth Obot's
office.
The police say the embalmed de@d child is presented to
mothers as their de@d babies.
Investigations showed that the de@d baby was also rented to
other trafficking networks or to any woman who may want to use a de@d child to
deceive her family.
When interrogated, the medical director of the hospital,
Elizabeth Obot, who has no license to operate, said
‘’In 2020,
one of those women who had issues with the police came and asked if I had a
de@d child, and at the time, I had one. So I told her, she collected it and
gave me N10,000.
I can charge
the person who wants to buy the child N3m. If the person pays, the social
mother will get her N2.5m, while the difference is what I use for
logistics.
The de@d
child is actually a product of miscarriage. The husband was not around, and
when we called him and told him we needed to dispose of the baby, he said okay
and asked us to go ahead. I charged him some money, and he paid, but somehow I
did not dispose of the baby''
She mentioned that the dead baby was used to help women with
fake pregnancies who are being pressured by their partners to give them a
child. Obot said such women stage a fake pregnancy, and when it is time to
deliver, they pretend they lost the baby and present the de@d child to their
partners.
She denied any wrongdoing. According to her, she has only
been helping desperate women seeking the fruit of the womb. She said the women
who come to her to sell their babies do so voluntarily.
One of the suspects, Uffiong Ubong Anthony, revealed that
she is not a professional nurse but only learnt how to serve as an auxiliary
nurse by studying the activities of nurses in a private hospital. She said she
has served as an untrained nurse for 21 years.
The police have asked anyone who had a stillbirth in the
facility to come forward to help with the investigation. The police advised
women to always ensure they have a relative inside the delivery ward to monitor
their child after delivery. The police also advised pregnant women to always
ensure that their delivery wards have protectors on the window. According to
the police, investigations have shown that delivery wards without windows help
the criminal-minded hospital staff easily steal babies from their delivery
rooms.
Watch a video of the suspects and the hospital below
EXPOSED! Rivers hospital on the spot after police uncover child trafficking ring swapping newborn babies with deceased infant corpses. pic.twitter.com/4ZfFTN43Nb
— DAILY POST 🇳🇬 (@dailypost_ng) June 22, 2026
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