A
middle-aged woman, who said that she trekked from Majidun in the
Ikorodu area of Lagos State to Arepo in Ogun State, has given birth to a
baby boy on a road in Arepo.
Ubi Eze
A mentally unstable woman identified as Ubi Eze, has given birth to a baby boy on a road in Arepo, a community in Ogun State.
Speaking with a Punch correspondent, a resident of the community,
Akinlolu Akinsanmi, who took the woman to a hospital nearby, said that
the woman was lying in a pool of blood with her newborn baby in the
middle of the road around 6.am last Thursday.
Akinsanmi said, “I was jogging down to the gym before 6.00 am
when I saw that two people had gathered around a woman who seemed to be
in labour. Before I got there, she had had the baby. But she was still
covered up in blood and she looked weak.
“The other people went to get an ambulance. After waiting for
some minutes, I ran to the nearest hospital to get help. The workers
then put the woman in a wheelchair and took her to the hospital for
treatment.”
Also speaking to a correspondent, at the hospital, the young mother
who had difficulty explaining her condition, said that she walked from
Majidun in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State to Arepo in Ogun State.
She alleged that she was thrown out of her residence by her
boyfriend, whom she identified as Lekin Namodun, after unresolved
arguments about the paternity of the baby.
The Delta State indigene also admitted that she did not know how she got pregnant. She said, “I
came to Lagos a few years ago with my friend (name unknown) who later
abandoned me. I was homeless and I started sleeping in other people’s
shops before I met my boyfriend who gave me shelter.
“Later I travelled to Warri to see my parents. It was after I
came back to Lagos that noticed I was pregnant. My boyfriend did not
allow me to enter the house because he warned me against going to Warri
in the first place.
“I started living in the Christ Healing Church at Majidun
before I walked down to this place (Arepo). I don’t remember sleeping
with any man, not even with my boyfriend. I just noticed that I had
stopped seeing my menstrual period before I left for Warri.”
Head of the Nursing Department of ROA Specialist hospital, Mrs.
Adesola Obey, who disclosed that Eze could be mentally-challenged, said
the hospital had contacted the Lagos State Government to help
rehabilitate the nursing mother and possibly reconnect her with her
family.
Obey said, “A good Samaritan rushed to inform us that a woman
had given birth on the road. We followed him to the spot and brought her
to the hospital with our wheelchair. She was looking unkempt, almost
like a mentally challenged woman.
“Although her baby was out, the placenta was still inside her
body. We quickly assisted with the final processes of the delivery.
Mother and child are fine. We have informed the police station and some
NGOs that we thought could be of help.
“Also, we have informed the Lagos State Government about her
condition. But we were told that the case was not within the
jurisdiction of the government, which later accepted her for
rehabilitation.”
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