The Paramount Ruler of
Efut Nation, in Cross River State, Effiong Mbukpa, has called on government to publicly execute any one found to be operating illegal baby factory in the country.
The Monarch said those who run such homes were not fit to live, adding that they should be tied to stakes like armed robbers and executed publicly.
He spoke against the backdrop of cases of child abductions in Calabar and proliferation of illegal baby factories in some southern states.
“They are beasts who should not live among humans. It is an abomination to run such satanic homes. Such people do not have core societal values anymore. Selling of babies is not African tradition. “All these have their root in corruption. Our security men know where all these baby factories are but are they willing to go after the culprits? Government has a responsibility to stop this ugly trend,” he said.
Mbukpa also called on government to review bottlenecks associated with legal adoptions of children if the spate of abduction of infants in Cross River state and indeed across the nation were to abate.
According to him, most childless couples who would ordinarily want to adopt children legally prefer to buy children out-rightly from illegal baby factories due to rigidity attached to adoptions by government.
He said, “government should revisit or review laws as it concerns adoptions of children. This will lessen the sufferings and stress those who want to adopt children pass through. If you make the laws too rigid, you are creating room for people to capitalize on the rigidity to perpetrate all sorts of evil practices.
“As a father presiding over affairs of millions of people in this kingdom, several of my subjects who had formally approached authorities for this purpose have been complaining it was taking them several years to get a child adopted. “The states and national assembly should come up with a clear and less cumbersome ways to do this.