[b]Nigeria's Baby Farmers


Investigating Nigeria's notorious baby farms and the criminals who abuse and exploit women for profit.

03 Dec 2015 06:11 GMT | Health, Africa
It is understandable why a desperate childless couple might do anything to have a baby, but those who exploit their unhappiness for profit are not so easy to forgive.

In this deeply disturbing episode of Africa Investigates, Ghana's undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and investigative reporter Rosemary Nwaebuni team up to identify and expose some of those those behind Nigeria's heart-breaking baby trade.

It is a scam that exploits couples desperate for a baby and young pregnant single mothers - often stigmatised in a country where abortion is illegal except in the most dire medical emergency. It is also a trade that international NGOs have identified as sinister and out of control.

Filming undercover, the team find bogus doctors and clinics offering spurious fertility treatments in return for large amounts of money. In their guise as a childless couple, Anas and Rosemary are falsely diagnosed by one dodgy clinician as being unable to conceive children.

When the footage is reviewed by an official from Nigeria's Ministry of Health, he is appalled at the way vulnerable people are being conned. "You should not allow these people access to the public," he says.

But worse is to come. The team go on to uncover orphanages and clinics that act as brokers for illegal baby sales, by which naive, greedy or simply desperate young mothers are "persuaded" to hand over their newborn children for cash.

FILM-MAKER'S VIEW

By Nonuk Walter

After exposing the dubious and often dangerous practices of fake doctors in the last season of Africa Investigates, we reassembled our Nigeria team and returned to investigate allegations of medical clinics and orphanages involved in the illegal sale of newborn babies.

Nigerian journalist Rosemary Nwaebuni had heard reports of young girls being kept against their will and forced to produce babies, only for the children to be sold on to childless couples, desperate to avoid the public scrutiny and stigma of legal adoption.

Joining Rosemary once again was renowned investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, fresh from his recent explosive undercover investigation into judicial corruption in Ghana. Anas's unique experience and myriad undercover skills quickly took us to the core of the baby business.

In parts of Nigeria women who remain childless face prejudice. It can even arouse suspicion of witchcraft. Rosemary wanted to show the lengths that women are prepared to go to achieve pregnancy; for many, legal adoption is not a viable solution.

Instead, they turn to so-called "miracle" doctors. In spite of frequent crackdowns by the authorities, you don't need to look very hard to find "miracle" clinics open for business in the discreet suburbs of Port Harcourt, Aba and Imo State.[/b]


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@lalasticlala

Nigeria image is beyond repair.

Hmmn!

My kwenu people again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKV0Bk8Fv8&feature=player_embedded#t=0

Nigerians are demons in human clothIng

That's what u get when a tribe shape of head is Flat...it compressed their brain killing vital cells in the mendula oblongata..which makes their brain Malfunction often

princdebola201:
That's what u get when a tribe shape of head is Flat...it compressed their brain killing vital cells in the mendula oblongata..which makes their brain Malfunction often

hummm

obia62:
Nigeria image is beyond repair.

biafra's image, not Nigeria's.

Igbo's are really hardworking..........

I'm not surprised.

princdebola201:
That's what u get when a tribe shape of head is Flat...it compressed their brain killing vital cells in the mendula oblongata..which makes their brain Malfunction often

The video covered urhobo delta cross river and IMO

One Adekunle a fake doctor was caught in urhobo delta ujevwu in precise

Ohaeri was caught in IMO

A Non Governmental Organization was caught in calabar


Think before you talk

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