Women now fake pregnancies with steroids to deceive husbands – Ex-NAPTIP DG
Former Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Julie Okah-Donli, has claimed that some women use steroids to fake pregnancies and later purchase babies to deceive their husbands into believing they gave birth.
Okah-Donli made the startling allegations in a resurfaced interview that gained attention on Tuesday during her appearance on the *Kaa Truths Podcast*. She spoke extensively about alleged fake pregnancy syndicates and baby trafficking networks operating in the country.
According to Okah-Donli, the women are injected with steroids to create the physical appearance of pregnancy.
“They are injected with steroids. So when they inject them with these steroids, it gives them the semblance of a pregnant woman. Their faces are bloated up, and their tummies are actually very big. They look pregnant, but they are not pregnant,” she said.
She further alleged that the women mimic common pregnancy symptoms, such as morning sickness, vomiting, and spitting, particularly in the presence of their husbands.
“When their husbands are around, they pretend to be suffering from morning sickness. They spit, they pretend to throw up and all sorts of funny things,” she claimed.
Okah-Donli added that the women often time the supposed delivery to coincide with the husband’s absence.
“When it’s time to have the baby, they usually have the baby when the man has travelled. Then he comes back to see a baby in the house. But sometimes if it’s the kind of man that doesn’t travel, they ask him to go and buy something… By the time the man comes back, it’s ‘Congratulations, you have a baby,’” she alleged.
She also claimed some women undergo fake surgical procedures to simulate caesarean section deliveries.
“They actually do open them up to make it look like they had a CS. That’s how desperate these guys are. They stitch them back up,” she said.
The former NAPTIP boss linked the alleged practice to paternity disputes, noting that many children turn out not to be biologically related to their presumed fathers. She advocated for mandatory maternity tests in such cases to determine whether the women actually gave birth.
“We started finding out that during a paternity test, a lot of children were not the children of the man. But one thing they failed to do was maternity test, which would have confirmed that the women did not have the children,” she stated.
Okah-Donli suggested that maternity testing could help uncover baby trafficking by tracing the true origins of the children.
“The man is thinking this woman cheated on me, whereas the woman bought the baby. So it’s not even the mother. You can have the maternity test to be sure that this woman is not the mother of the baby, and then you begin to investigate where the baby came from,” she explained.
She further alleged that some women claim to have given birth to twins, triplets, or quadruplets, as it makes the deception simpler.
“Most of them say they have twins. They have triplets. They have quadruplets. Now everybody seems to be having twins and triplets and quadruplets because it’s easier for them to just buy them once and for all and deceive themselves and the world,” she claimed.
Julie Okah-Donli was appointed Director-General of NAPTIP in 2017 by former President Muhammadu Buhari and led the agency’s campaign against human trafficking and related crimes.
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