From Joseph Asegba, Yola
A miscarriage woman was reported stealing a baby from a hospital in Ngurure of Yola local government area of Adamawa state.
The twenty-three-year-old woman, Maryam Sani, Instead of going home without a baby after she was fully pregnant, miscarried her pregnancy and forced her to steal one for replacement.
Maryam after arrest narrated the ugly story that after having a three-month miscarriage and was afraid to tell her husband led to the stealing of the baby.
Maryam’s words: “I went to the hospital in Affcott where I normally visited from Numan for my normal routine checkups, there was no one in, including the nurses who are supposed to be on duty.”
She said: “I didn’t visit the hospital purposely to steal the newborn baby but I saw the opportunity when the Mother and all her relations were outside sleeping.”
“I was at the hospital for a checkup because I was not feeling too well, I didn’t carry the newlyborn baby girl for any evil reason, or asked by someone to do so but because I love her.
“Nobody can suspect me because the community believes I’m pregnant and we did the naming ceremony to her as my biological baby without my husband knowing how the baby came about,” she said.
When asked how she breastfed the baby, she narrated, ”I got some induce drugs that made my breast come up with milk and I am using my breast to feed her.”
Maryam Sani’s arrest was a result of her biological parents reporting the matter to the police and an investigation was trailed to her.
The report while reaching the Adamawa State Police command stormed Maryam’s house, who was not present and it was alleged that she went into Taraba state for the safety of the baby, her husband was arrested instead.
Hearing the arrest of her husband, Maryam came back with the baby on her own and regretted the actions that put her in the nets of the Nigerian Police Command Adamawa State over the stolen baby.
The state police command spokesman, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje reacted angrily and said, “We will never allow criminals of whatever type to have a field day in Adamawa State and Maryam will be duly prosecuted according to the Constitution provided.”
However, the story carries so many negligible acts both from the Mother of the newly born baby, the relatives and the nurses meanwhile, if the baby’s mother may be too tired from labour stress, what are the reasons for the relatives?
The most to blame is the nurses who believe that they more to receive the blame because there are either two or more nurses in a ward, one among them should be present if for any reason and the personnel employed to be paid.
