The recurrent reports about criminally-minded people who recruit or kidnap young and unsuspecting minors and keep them in what qualifies as prison houses, and then get a young man to impregnate them, they give birth and the babies are sold for rituals and whatever in the 21st Century Nigeria is ungodly, wicked and horrible.
This act is otherwise popularly known as ‘baby factory’.
In many parts of the nation, especially in South-East Nigeria, particularly in Imo State, we have heard chilling stories of baby-making factories. Babies so given birth to are sold to willing and ready buyers. Prices of children range from N150, 000 to N350, 000.
The price of male children is usually higher than female ones, according to reports.
There are also cases of some wicked mothers who dump their babies, whom they may have suffered unspeakable emotional pains to carry for nine months.
In any country where men and women are so desperate for money and quick riches, these are the kind of despicable things you hear. Rituals and child trafficking become the order of the day. Given the so many dark and ghastly news reports that dominate the global media today about man’s inhumanity to man, it becomes needless to state that man has really descended below the lowest level of sanity and humanity.
One of such ironies is the fact that those who patronise them are some of our so-called leaders and business men and women. Such a practice does not only trample on the spirit of human development and destroy the foundation of the future generation in a nation, but also reduces man to an evil being.
We condemn in very strong terms this nefarious act and demand that necessary laws be invoked to prosecute those arrested, as well as those connected with the act. We are also demanding for the strengthening of our legal system in this regard to enhance preventive mechanism of this inhuman activity in our society.
Poverty and greed may not be ruled out completely as factors, especially in the case of those who engage in commercial sex. There are views that some of them might have been pushed out into such an immoral trade as a result of poverty, societal neglect, among others excuses. There are also cases of those who are abused by the society through rape. It is against natural law, conscience and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for anyone to engage in such dastardly acts.