08/05/2026
I have been following the child trafficking case being exposed by VDM and honestly I am deeply disappointed
How can a lawyer agree to act as a middleman in a child transfer arrangement and still fail to ensure due process of law was followed?
From the reports released so far, the intention was to get a newborn baby for her sister based in the UK after an earlier attempt through a m0therless babies home failed.
But this is the part many people do not understand.
There are TWO common situations people confuse under adoption in Nigeria.
🥢 The first is where you already have the child with you and simply want to legalize the adoption.
🥢 The second is where you do not have any child at all and want to adopt through G0vt. approved channels.
In this situation, they already had the child. So all that was needed was proper legalization through the Ministry of Social Welfare and the Court.
The biological parents ought to have been identified properly and their consent properly obtained through an affidavit and documented.
Welfare officers were supposed to investigate who the adopting parents are, their marital status, financial capacity, home environment and whether the adoption was truly in the best interest of the child. They were also expected to conduct interviews, background checks and even home visits to ensure there was no coercion, no trafficking and no foul play involved.
After that, temporary fostering approval could have been issued to allow the child stay lawfully with the adopting family pending the final adoption proceedings in court where a lawyer would then file for an Adoption Order.
THAT is adoption.
Not carrying a newborn baby on the road like a package delivery.
Not secret cash transactions.
Not “the mother cannot take care of the child” stories without proper verification.
The moment due process is removed, what you now have is no longer adoption. It becomes child trafficking.
Under the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act 2015, buying, selling, transferring, transporting or dealing in children outside lawful procedures is a criminal offence.
This is exactly why lawyers handling adoption matters must be extremely careful because once money starts changing hands outside lawful procedures, the entire arrangement becomes danger0us legally.
So if VDM and the Special Tactical Squad of the Police had not responded swiftly, this is how this baby would have quietly disappeared?
This is sc@ry.
A child is not a product.
A child is not “supplied.”
A child is not “delivered.”
And no matter how emotional the story sounds, once due process is ignored, the law may see it as trafficking and not adoption.
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