According to the spokesperson, Joy Elomoko of the Imo state Police, the security agents discovered the existence of the criminal structure when a young lady with a one-day old child piqued an officer's curiousity. Upon further investigation, the lady confessed to delivering the baby at a clinic in Port Harcourt.

The officers went to the maternity clinic in Port Harcourt run by an unlicensed woman to find 6 pregnant young ladies at different stages of pregnancy, one of whom was only 14 years old.

According to the Elomoko: "The woman could not produce any document authourising her to operate the clinic and she was subsequently arrested."

She went on to state that during the course of their interrogation, the girls informed the police that they were kept in the home to make babies that would then be sold to different people.

In recent times, the Nigerian police have uncovered and shut down various baby factories mainly in the South-Eastern part of the country.