By Akubulu Ngozi
Popular Nigerian Investigative Journalist and Founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Fisayo Soyombo has revealed a Christian Orphanage Home in Anambra, ‘Arrows of God Orphanage Home’ where children are auctioned for sale to the highest bidder.
This shocking revelation was made known by Fisayo during an interactive session with newsmen on Arise News Television, today.
According to him, the investigation which birthed the shocking news has been on for the past 19 months.
As disclosed in the trending documentary, “Fisayo studied, penetrated a Christian Orphanage that had been selling babies under the table. When he first received the tip-off in December 2021, one baby cost N1.5 million. 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.
“This 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.”
He further disclosed that, the baby he bought from the Orphanage Home, Oriade, since July 6th, 2023 has not been checked by any officials from the defaulted Orphanage Home.
He said, “Other than a missed call from the official Arrows of God line on July 11, nobody from the orphanage has made any effort to reach me or Oriade at Arrows of God. They can’t say for certain if she is dead or alive, or if I have resold her or processed her organs for ritual purposes.
“And they have never been able to reach me via secondary sources since they do not possess the phone number or address of anyone else with links to me.”