Former Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Julie Okah-Donli, has alleged that some women use steroids to simulate pregnancy before acquiring babies to deceive their husbands into believing they gave birth.
Speaking during an interview on the Kaa Truths Podcast, a clip of which resurfaced on Tuesday, July 14, Okah-Donli claimed that women involved in the alleged scheme are administered steroids that produce physical changes resembling pregnancy.
According to her, the injections can cause swollen faces and enlarged abdomens, making the women appear visibly pregnant despite not carrying a child.
She further alleged that the women mimic pregnancy-related symptoms in the presence of their husbands and later present babies as their biological children after allegedly arranging for the men to be away during the supposed delivery.
Okah-Donli also claimed that some women undergo procedures to create scars resembling those from caesarean sections in an effort to reinforce the deception.
The former NAPTIP chief advocated the inclusion of maternity tests alongside paternity tests in disputed parentage cases, arguing that such measures could help investigators expose alleged baby trafficking and fraudulent childbirth schemes.
Ex-Naptip DG Claims Some Women Use Steroids, Stage Pregnancies to Pass off Bought Babies as their own
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