Gunmen Tuesday invaded the labour room of a maternity home in Nkwoegwu, Ohuhu, in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State and took away a baby delivered a few minutes back, while nurses were battling to save the mother from bleeding to death.
The mother, Mrs. Eberechi Ihezukwu, says she still thinks that she is in one deep dream, which she will wake up from. “I only heard the cry of my baby and I asked the nurse its sex and she told me that it was a baby boy. I have had three girls for my husband and this is the first male child.”
Mrs. Ihezukwu reportedly gave birth around 6:00pm on November 13. The gunmen invaded the maternity few minutes later, overpowered the security man, collected everybody’s cell phones before dashing to the labour room and snatched the new born baby who was still dripping of blood.
Her husband, Clifford Ihezukwu, a radio/television repairer, said what was too much for him to understand was how the police, who he reported the incident to, turned him into a suspect and locked him up in a cell for two days (Tuesday to Thursday) until he allegedly bailed himself with N15, 000. “I have no one to fight for me,” he lamented.
When contacted on phone, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ambrose Aisabor, said he was not aware of the matter. “Where did this happen; I’m not aware of this incident; I have to find out,” the CP replied.
Meanwhile the maternity home and the home of the Mbakwes, owners of the maternity are under lock and key. They seem to have vanished into thin air. (Credit: Sun)
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