Wednesday, September 9, 2026 - A suspected member of a notorious child-stealing and human
trafficking syndicate, Adejoke Popoola, has confessed to selling four of her
own biological children before venturing into abducting other children for
sale.
A Popoola made the shocking disclosure while being paraded
alongside her accomplices at the Oyo State Police Command headquarters in
Eleyele, Ibadan, on Monday, September 7.
Addressing journalists, the suspect revealed that her
involvement in the illicit trade began in October 2024. Since then, she and her
team members have allegedly abducted and sold numerous children, including a
newborn baby and a set of twins.
“God blessed
me with the gift of pregnancy. Anytime a man has s#x with me, I get pregnant, I
give birth to twins. I have sold the twins to one Oluwakemi clinic for N300,
000. She also resells them to her customers in Lagos. She has a baby industry.
When the owner of the pregnancy rejects the pregnancy, that is when I sell.
Sometimes I get N80,000 or N120,000 for each child I sell” she said.
Popoola said she had seven children of her own, adding that
some of them were married.
Popoola said a woman she worked with at Ogeere Market
introduced her to child trafficking. She claimed to have posed as a
spiritualist and targeted parents with children living with disabilities.
“Sometimes,
I disguise myself as a spiritualist. Parents bring their disabled children to
me because they cannot talk, sit, or walk. So, I will promise them that I can
help them to heal, then I will go and pick another person’s child for them,”
she said.
She further recounted how she stole a three-year-old boy,
Ifakunle Ifagbenro, during an Egungun festival in Oyo Town.
“I went to
an Egungun festival to steal a child, Ifakunle. I woke up early and asked a
bike man to drive me to the place where they were holding the Egungun festival,
so he drove me to the house. When I entered the house, they were praying, so I
joined them and I even gave them money for the prayer.
When the
Egungun left, the boy told his mother that he did not want to stay at home and
wanted to join the procession. So, I volunteered to help hold the boy.
I joined them for the procession
and, in the evening, I picked up the boy, laid him on my back and ran away with
him,” she said.
Popoola claimed that six children had d!ed out of the 19 children she had
allegedly kidnapped.
“About six children d!ed from the
19 children I have kidnapped, but 13 are alive,” she said
Watch a video of Popoola confessing below
Member of child-trafficking syndicate, ADEJOKE POPOOLA, says she first sold two sets of her own kids before venturing into kidnapping pic.twitter.com/PMQWBahs3R
— DAILY POST 🇳🇬 (@dailypost_ng) September 9, 2026
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