An Owerri-based activist, journalist and human rights defender, Chidiebube Okeoma, has taken home a set of twin boys delivered on May 4, 2024 but unable to go home because of delivery bill.
Okeoma, in a statement Saturday, said the state Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, should be commended for his professional and fatherly intervention which ensured that the twin boys who were delivered over five months ago went home despite the doctor’s insistence to keep holding them against their fundamental human rights.
Okeoma said he was not the first person who had gone to the maternity to request for the discharge of the babies and their 19-year old mother but the doctor made it very impossible.
He said that the CP’s intervention after the doctor acknowledged before him in his office on Thursday that he jokingly requested that the babies be exchanged in lieu of the delivery bill was commendable.
He said apart from taking the babies home for the first time since they were born close to six months ago, he and his team bought food items, diapers and gave a cash of N100, 000 to the mother of the babies.
Okeoma said the gesture was made possible following the support he got from some compassionate Nigerians who heard the plight of the kids and their mother through him on the social media.
On the doctor’s insistence on the delivery bill before now, Okeoma urged the CP to charge him for hostage taking, abuse of the medical ethics and attempt to compromise the identities of the twins.
“We are not the first to come for the discharge of the twins but the doctor kept hiking the delivery,” he further said.
The activist journalist urged the CP to ask his men to investigate the assault the doctor and his nurses inflicted on the 19- year old nursing mother and the kids’ grandmother and the loss of their phone.
