Female lawyer stuns immigration: ‘I paid N1.5million for mystery baby’

A lawyer from Cameroon, Mrs Ngala
Norgu Julia, has been arrested by men of
the Cross River State Command of the
Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, for
allegedly being in possession of a one-
week -old baby girl which she claimed she
was delivered of by a herbalist at
Okitiputa, Ondo State.
Mr Samuel Igochi, the Comptroller of
Immigration, Cross River State Command,
said Ngala was arrested by the
Intelligence and Investigation Team of the
Service at the Calabar port while trying to
smuggle the baby to Cameroon. “She
claimed a herbalist in Okitikpupa, Ondo
State gave her some herbs which she
took in November 2012 after which she
got pregnant and delivered the baby but
there are no signs in her that she actually
delivered that baby”, Ogochi said.
According to him, a team was constituted
to examine her but, after due examination,
there were no signs that she actually
delivered the baby.
“Since the 1st of September 2013 which
she gave as the date for her delivery, her
breasts were not able to produce milk as
is always the case with every birth which
is quite unusual”, the NIS boss stated.
“She then said she paid the sum of N1.5
million to the woman who delivered her of
the baby . Why such a whooping sum for
just delivery which is not by Caesarean
process?”.
He said the child would be handed over to
the National Agency Against Trafficking in
Persons, NATIP, for upkeep till the
determination of the case since the NIS is
not a baby factory. “Taking care of such a
baby is very expensive and time
demanding and since the Nigerian
Immigration Service is not equipped to
handle such responsibility, we will hand
over the child like the one we had two
weeks ago to NAPTIP in Uyo”
Ngala, who was accompanied by another
Cameroonian lady, Mrs Mende Cecila Fru,
said she heard about the Okitipupa clinic
assisting women to deliver children
supernaturally and so she had to borrow
money and came to Nigeria to consult the
woman and she was given herbal
medicine which she took and and got
pregant.
“When I heard that the woman was
helping women without children to deliver
babies, I borrowed money here and there
and came to Nigeria and she gave me
herbal medicine and when I went back I
met my partner and I became pregnant”.
According to her, out of the sum of 1N.5
million she paid to the clinic N277.000
was for the herbs to enable her become
pregnant while 1 .2 million was for
delivery of the baby. “She told me the
delivery was supernatural, so I should not
visit any orthodox medicine when I am
about to deliver, that I should go to
Okitipupa and truly when I got there, after
nine days, she took me to a room and
delivered me of the baby”.
She said she was asked to lie on the floor
while somebody exerted pressure on her
stomach while she was asked to push and
the baby came out and fell on the floor . “
The woman then beat the child three
times on the back and the child began to
cry and I was asked to stand up”.
Mrs Fru, who accompanied Ngala, on her
part, said she did not go inside the room
where the baby was delivered but sat in
the parlour and when she heard a baby
cry, “They took me inside and I saw the
child still covered with blood and I was
very happy for my friend for the
successful delivery of her baby”.