The attached video documentary exposes how Arrows of God, one of Nigeria’s biggest orphanage homes, uses its Lagos headquarters as a smokescreen for attracting the rich, then turns around to sell the babies to the highest bidder in South East.
For 19 months, investigative journalist, ‘Fisayo Soyombo, @fisayosoyombo, studied, trailed, investigated and eventually penetrated a Christian orphanage that had been selling babies under the table.
Soyombo said that when he first received the tip-off in December 2021, one baby cost N1.5 million.
However, nineteen months later when he finally bought his, the ‘cost’ had jumped to N2 million, excluding a list of sundry pre-purchase expenses and covert requests for the greasing of palms.
According to the investigator, the orphanage perpetrates the act with the collusion of the police, the judiciary and the Ministry of Women Affairs in Awka, the Anambra State capita.
The investigation exposes not only how a popular Lagos-headquartered orphanage home was attracting donors with its religious tenets, longstanding existence, media mileage and strategic positioning in Nigeria’s commercial capital before diverting them to the South-East for backdoor cash-for-baby transactions, it also reveals how the sales were executed with the collusion of the police and the judiciary.
Watch short video clips of the 19-month-long investigation below:
This they do with the collusion of the police, the judiciary and the Ministry of Women Affairs, Awka, Anambra State.#ArrowsofGod pic.twitter.com/rRQabOA0n5
— 'Fisayo Soyombo (@fisayosoyombo) August 11, 2023
Watch the full 22-minute documentary on YouTube below:
To read the Arrows Of God story published by FIJ Nigeria, click here.
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