Reacting to her arrest, Mrs Happiness Ogundeji denied all
allegations levelled against her stating that she was only running a
herbal hospital and the women who were arrested were her patients. She
said she runs a dredging and construction business, De- Choice
Construction Comapany in Ore and has 3 filling stations in Port Harcourt
Rivers State. Her husband Abiodun Ogundeji feigned not knowing of his
wife's business saying that he only knew her to be into
Construction as well as oil and gas. He said he was a Civil Engineer
with Chevron, Rivers State.
Most of those arrested refused to speak to reporters but however
said anonymously that they were all impregnated in Imo state and then
transferred to Ondo state. Upon delivery, their babies would be taken
away from them to an unknown place by Mrs Ogundeji .
They are all currently at the Lagos office of the National
Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related
Matters (NAPTIP)
