…Orders probe of doctor, maternity
The Commissioner of Police in Imo state, Aboki Danjuma, has ordered the immediate release of twin boys, Chidindu and Chijindu, who were held in a maternity since May 4, they were delivered through a cesarean section over their parents inability to foot their medical bill.
The CP who gave the order in his office at the command headquarters in Owerri, the state capital on Thursday, also ordered that the Medical Director of Goodwill Maternity at Obinze in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the state, Silas Nwamadi, who conducted the delivery of the babies be investigated for acknowledging that he jokingly asked the nursing mother to give him the twins in exchange for the unpaid hospital bill.
The Medical Doctor had admitted before the CP that he had “jokingly” asked the 19- year- old mother of the twins, Precious Okere, to handover the children to him.
Describing the statement as a weighty one, the CP asked his men to investigate him.
The CP also scolded the Medical doctor for his refusal to have empathy on the kids and their 19-year old mother even when some compassionate Nigerians came to pick the delivery bill.
The grandmother of the twins, Mrs Ngozi Okere, who had been at the maternity with the twins and their 19-year old mother since May 4, had petitioned the CP on Wednesday, alleging that the Medical doctor had been persuading her and her daughter to give him the twins in exchange for the delivery bill, an allegation the 19-year old mother of the twins collaborated before the CP.
On Wednesday, some compassionate Nigerians led by an activist journalist, Chidiebube Okeoma, went to the maternity to secure the release of the twins and their mother but the doctor hiked the bill.
All entreaties made by the good Nigerians for him to accept the initial bill he gave fell on deaf ears.
Instead the nurses fought the 19 year old mother of the twins and her mother.
The kids grandmother lost her phone, injury inflicted on her and the nursing mother assaulted.
Okeoma had championed an advocacy for the release of the kids having stayed nearly six months at the maternity, a call some people keyed into and made financial commitments.
As of the time of filing this report, the doctor was seen at the Scorpion Squad Unit of the police command making statement.