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Monday 19 November 2012

New born baby kidnapped from labour room in Abia State

Gunmen invaded the labour room of a maternity home in Nkwoegwu, Ohuhu, in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State and took away a new born baby while nurses were battling to save the mother from bleeding to death.

The baby, a boy, was still dripping with blood when the evil men seized and folded him with the bed sheet in which he was lying.


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. My heart was joyful as I felt that I have got an identity in my husband’s house.

With the joy, I was happy that if the nurses stopped the bleeding, its arrival would be a consolation for my travails. “Now see what they have done to me. My breasts are heavy with milk; it is a burden I have refused to bear. They should please bring back my baby to suck my breasts. I refuse to believe that my baby has gone; the God who put it in my womb for nine months before its delivery will fish out the perpetrators and my baby will be brought back to me.

Peace will continue to elude those who have taken it until they bring it back to me,” Mrs. Ihezukwu prayed. 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.

“On Tuesday, November 13, 2012, at about 2pm, my wife who was already heavy with a baby told me she was going to hospital (Our Lady of Apostles, Nkwoegwu, Ohuhu, Umuahia North LGA of Abia State) where she normally puts to bed. Later, she phoned me, seeking for my consent as the nurses wanted to give her hot drip to help her deliver of the baby since during her three previous pregnancies, there was no time she was given such hot drip before she put to bed. Instantly, I gave my consent if that would be the solution to the problem.

I learnt that the drip was at about 6pm. By 7pm, I went there to see her since it is within a short distance from my home. When I got to the maternity, I saw my wife’s sister rejoicing; she told me that my wife had just put to bed. I thanked God and told her to take charge while I went back to check what I was cooking. I was there when she rushed back to the house and was shouting: “My stomach! My stomach!” I asked her what was amiss and she told me that gunmen invaded the maternity, kicked her in the stomach after overpowering the security man and collected everybody’s cell phones, including that of my wife who was still inside the labour room where the nurses were battling to stop the bleeding after the delivery.

They dashed into the labour room, grabbed the baby who was still dripping with blood and dashed off. My wife was not yet conscious of what was going on as she battled for survival after the nurses had administered her with some injection to stop the bleeding. So, I rushed to the maternity. When I got there, the whole place was locked; I went round knocking at the windows until someone opened. When they narrated how gunmen carried out their operation and took my baby away, I took my wife and went straight home.

"When I later came back to the maternity, soldiers had besieged the arena. After asking questions, the soldiers picked the five nurses and I told them that my wife was still bleeding and appealed to them to allow one nurse to attend to her and they obliged me. After some time, policemen came and asked us what happened and I told them what transpired. Then, they asked me to come to the station in the morning and report the matter officially.

They asked me and I directed them to the home of the owner of the maternity and they left. In the morning, I was attending to my wife and children when they came and asked me why I had not come to the station as they directed me. Then, I told them that I was still attending to my wife and children and would soon be with them. Shortly after, I went to Afugiri Police Station to make an entry. On getting there, the policemen who came to my house earlier were not present so I waited for about four hours before they came back as I was told that they went to Umuosu, the home of the owner of the maternity.

I told the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) what I knew about the matter. When he asked why I left the maternity I told him that I went to feed my children and look after my wife who was still down. After another two hours, I told them that I was going to eat and see how my wife and children were doing. As I was speaking with him, he ordered that I should be kept behind the counter. My brother who came with me had to go and buy malt and snacks for me to eat because I was already famished. “Then the owner of the maternity, Mrs. Dan Mbakwe and her husband came with my Sister- in-Law. About 4pm, I asked them what my offence was and why I should not be allowed to go home and see my family, but the policemen kept mute. After some time, they started intimidating and telling me that I was the number one suspect in the case and that I would soon be taken to see the Commissioner of Police and I said ok. “At about 5 pm, they brought out a Hilux van, put me, my sister in-law, Mrs. Mbakwe and her husband and the securityman at the hospital in it and took us to the State CID headquarters. At the State CID, I told them my story and they told me that it was late for me to be released and that I would be locked up till the next day.

They asked me to pull off my dress and then hauled my sister and me in-law into cell. But they kept Mrs. Mbakwe, her husband and the securityman at the counter. Then they all left and handed over to another set of policemen on duty. “In the morning, just before people started coming to work, they put us (the trio) into cell for about an hour to look as if all of us had been inside the cell all night. I then asked the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) what my offence was and he told me that no one had come for me. He said that he had asked them to bring N20, 000 for my bail. ‘Are you asking that amount of money from some one who had been passing through such a trauma?’ I asked the man who came for me later – Chief Ukaobasi.

I told him to look into my trouser pocket at the counter, maintaining that I had N8, 000 inside it. He found the money intact, added N2, 000 to it and paid the police with a promise to bring a balance of N5, 000 if they released me. On Thursday, they released me to go home. I then borrowed N5, 000 from a neigbour and sent to them to bring the total sum to N15, 000. But by I pm on that Thursday, the owner of the hospital and the security man were released. That is what I’m passing through. “I wonder why I should be made to go through this after my baby had been kidnapped and my wife left at a point of death.

“The name of the lady who signed my bail bond is Chioma. I ran to the police to help me because I had nobody and the police threw me into cell and turned me into a suspect instead of helping me to look for my stolen child. I am calling on the relevant authorities to come to my rescue. I have no one to fight for me,” he lamented. When contacted on phone, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ambrose Aisabor, who was shocked 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. When Daily Sun visited the maternity along Nkwoegwu road in Ohuhu. It was under lock and key. Daily Sun also visited the home of the Mbakwes, owners of the maternity at Umuosu, Okauga and did not find any body at home for comments.

Source: Sunnewsonline.com

64 comments:

Duke Emeka said...

Hmmmmmmm. Its well with our Nation.

Anonymous said...

They need to ask the dad...he for don collect settlement from some rich people looking for a baby

★★PRINCE CHARMING™★★ said...

Blood of God!! Now na to dey steal pikin at gun point? I bow down for Naija o! What. I feel the mothers pain, how sad! I just pray the culprits are found. How sad that our police keep on showing a high degree of incompetence always.

the real Billie Jean said...

Lord have mercy!
All will be well.
Amen!
Billie Jean

francisca said...

Nigerian police!When will u guys change?Will they ever change?God help this family.Will remember you guys in our prayers.Am speechless.Wow!

kemsugar said...

Wow.. Its painful.. But there is more to this story..I pray her baby is well and safe. The God that gave her d boy will protect him IJN.

Anonymous said...

Wonders shall never end! May the innocence of that little Angel torture those kidnapers and fetch him him out In Jesus Name, Amen! Oh I can only imagine how dis woman wiLl be feeling choi nwanyi ibem, it is well

Anonymous said...

So sad.the issue now is,the baby may have been stolen by some1 who has been looking for a child&may never be found. Endtimes !!! God hv mercy

Anonymous said...

I AM JUST TIRED OF THAT COUNTRY.. Thank God I'm Bri'ish... cant even deal.

Unknown said...

this is as embarrassing as it is exasperating. jeeeeeezzzzzzz!!!!

Anonymous said...

what more can be called wickedness than this. this is worse than witchcraft and wizardary. this is simply demonic. my goodness

Anonymous said...

Yes i tink d husband s a suspect 4 givin up xo easily on d bail...wot do u tink

Anonymous said...

Damn that's all the way wrong

Anonymous said...

Obara Jisos!! That is my village!! There goes the innocence of my childhood, memories of ekpe has been wiped off by this piece of news. Thinking that i've been counting down to xmas. Ogah o

Unknown said...

1st of all, I second the womans decree "I refuse to believe that
my baby has gone; the God who put it in
my womb for nine months before its
delivery will fish out the perpetrators
and my baby will be brought back to me." And i say a big Amen to that!

As for Nigerian police, they to be blamed for most of the reasons why people take laws into their hands. Instade of helping the poor man secure his stolen baby, they just added salt to his injury. As many as they are who took part in sharing that money, God is watching them, and the devil also is watching them. God will judge them, while the devil will punish them!!

Anonymous said...

God help us......Police people are wicked.*sobs*

Constitution said...

unbelieveable, They will neva find rest until dey return de baby, and dey shall confess who sent them

miss bee said...

I am in shock reading this!! Wow! I can't imagine what this woman and her family is going thur..whattttt!!! I hope the baby is safe and the evil ones are caught.God please intervene!

I am,the no Sender said...

Seriously, will this country ever amount to anything good? Yet they say we should believe abi? In evil? Kai, e no go better for those police people, true.

As for the robbers, 7 thunders go locate them for dia hide out and electric lightening will now electrocute them.

Unknown said...

I pray the newborn baby is found.

Anonymous said...

NIGERIA POLICE.... IT WILL NOT BE WELL WITH YOU PEOPLE...THOSE USELESS PEOPLE CALLED THE POLICE COMMIT WORST CRIMES AND GET AWAY WITH IT.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DPO THAT KILLED ADEMOLA ADERINDE? NOTHING.
LUCY UKPONG? NO NEWS. ETC,,

http://naijainfoman.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/police-kill-nine-innocent-nigerians-in-three-months/

AND OUR GOVERNMENT IS DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT. THEY'VE GIVEN THOSE USELESS, PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WEAK AND INNOCENT CITIZENS.
WELL LIKE THEY SAY ONE DAY NA ONE DAY.....

K

Anonymous said...

ife neme

myra said...

God have mercy on us, I pray they find their child

Anonymous said...

I believe this man's story .. i hate the nigerian police .... one day robbers came to our house ... as they were leaving they fired a shot (local gun) and the shrapnel hit my brother and he started bleeding. we got to hospital, they said we needed police report b4 they could treat him .... we quickly went to police station, they said we had to pay N20,000 before they could write the report. thank God we were able to pay and my brother survived. if it had been a more serious injury, it would have been a different story.

Anonymous said...

Dear Jehovah God, please let this baby be found. Show your might in this case. Fight the battle for this poor woman who has gone thru the pains of childbirth. I pray the baby was not stolen for ritual purposes. I pray the baby is still alive, hale and very healty. May the perpetrators of this evil act never find peace until this child is returned to his parent. LIBers, pls lets all pray for this woman and for the family. There is nothing God cannot do.

Anonymous said...

Nigerian Police are so incompetent! Smh

Anonymous said...

Bia this anonymous 11:40, how can u just label d man a suspect just like dat or are u reasoning with ur anus?. A man who has been looking 4 a male child all dis while and also not dat rich, he is even a caring one 4 dat matter as he goes home 2 look after d other kids and also prepare food 4 d wife. He being poor doesn't make him 2 do money rituals with his new baby boy right from d hospital without waiting 4 d baby 2 get home first, where did he see such money 2 make such big arrangement 4 d gunmen 2 come 2 d hospital 4 such kidnap? May be u will be happy, if such event comes ur way and d pple around u or even ur family members suspects u when u know u are innocent? i employe u 2 suspect d hospital and not d poor man as how did d gunmen came 2 know dat a new baby has just been born, even d hot drip might have just been suggested 2 d woman so dat d late delivery will not scatter their plan (i.e d cursed gunmen and may be d hospital 2). d hot drip is now d cause of d woman's bleeding after d child's birth. poor woman! Doctors don't give dat hot drip expect in an emergency cases becos of d bleeding it causes, so why d hot drip????????? woman take heart, God will c u true.

Chief-priest said...

Snatching a baby still dripping with blood has extreme spiritual connotations...a very rich and powerful person or couple must've put word out for such to fulfil a desperate sacrificial purpose.They do not wish the baby to live but God Almighty's will shall be done in his life-amen!Between the nurses and the lady's sister,their mobile phone records shd be checked to see calls made and received within 48hrs of the kidnapping.Also check their bank account statements to see any unusual lodgements of huge sums of money.

Anonymous said...

Which our nation...... It happened in the republic of biafra! May God help your people.

Anonymous said...

story of an innocent poor man in Nigeria.. Lord please give this couple the peace that they deserve, fight this battle for them torment the evil perpetrators seize their peace until they return the innocent child they stole.. i just pray the baby is stil alive nd hasnt been used for their evil deeds..

Anonymous said...

U're a bastard for such a comment.....linda pls post let dis fool c how dumb his/her comment is

ETHAN said...

Wonders dey say sha never end.Wow

Oge Nsimah said...

Nawaoh chibo anu ozo! Na waoh new born baby Kwa! Ihe nka .. Odikwa egbu ooh !

Anonymous said...

Oh God , so sad,pls restore everytin 4 dat family. I was almost a victim of it in illorin, mum just gave birth to me and was resting and a man came and stole me thank God d security caught him b4 he could leave d hospital wt me,lord I give u praise!

kendra said...

You are stupid@anon 5:12... Trying to bring tribal war here.. Rubbish

Anonymous said...

Thank God I'm not dating a police officer, neither do we have any olopa officer in M̶̲̥̅γ̲̣̣̥ family.
*effizy*

Anonymous said...

My hrt grieve 4 d family,linda when u analyze dat story dere r some probability dat d hospital in question r d one suspect. (1) D nurse in questn (2) D owner..read vry well their r lots of questn going thru my head..like who saw she n her hubby leaving d houz 2 d hospital..a lot..I pray dat God almighty will hear d woman prayer n God will fetch them out.

Anonymous said...

God in His infinit mercy'l com 2 d aid of dis fam. Wen'l d evil in dis cotntr com 2 an end, a man in pain, yet was detaind in jail. Upon dat, stil hav mind 2 colet borowd moni 4rm him, God'l jugd u al.

FINEFACE said...

LIFE *SMH* HW CAN FELLOW PPLE CREATED BY GOD DO SUCH NO MATA HW MUCH THEY R PAID. DO DEY KNOW D KIND IF PAIN THEY R CAUSIN DIS LADY RITE NOW? GOD ARREST HER ARRESTERS IJN . AMEN

BLOGLORD said...

This is d sole reason why people hate to report issues to the police because they just add to ur problems. a father whose baby was abducted and wife bleeding with other little kids at home, how on earth do u lock him up saying he is a prime suspect?
i am really tired of the NPF.
i pray that baby becomes too hot for the evil ones to handle and hence be returned back to his mother safe and sound.God! imagine being abducted still clotted in blood. i fear for infection but that won't be his portion.
i just don't want to imagine what the poor lady would be going through. we go through so much pain bearing a child and the only thing that erases that pain is the joy at the sight of ur baby. I pray that God will see this family through and the baby be found all safe n sound in Jesus name.
really sad!

Anonymous said...

Oh my God please hear the cry of this mother all we Mothers on earth and in heaven cry out God please save this baby don't let him die let him be returned IJMN..I really feel for this woman..*ikunleabiamo*

Unknown said...

this is sad, after all the pain she's been thru for her to now enjoy holding her baby in her arms...i hope they find the baby in good health and catch those bastards

Avenger said...

U̶̲̥̅̊‎​ r a̶̲̥̅ F**kin Bastard Fø̲̣̣я̅ dat statement of urz

Anonymous said...

EWOOO THIS IS TOO MUCH FOR ONE FAMILY GOD PLEASE HELP THEM OUT OF THIS PROBLEM AND SAVE THE CHILD

Anonymous said...

Our is so useless.they wld have arrested the security guard, nurses,sister in law n husband. Seized their fones . Then trace all calls made during her labor period to when she delivered. I can assure there was not cctv at the entrance of that hospital.they can den start their investigation frm then . Police una too like money.olodo be una first name.

Floxy said...

What a propaganda? Such a thing didn't happen in Abia state. Opponents doesn't sleep, as they will always fabricate one story or the other to run the administration of Gov. T. A. orji down. This is so irritating to be true. Let come together as one and build this state than to cook cheap rumours to make people feel the state has no security. Anyone of us here can go down to the aforementioned place and verify it. This state is too big for this kind of cheap rumours. God will help us.

korofofo said...

Re u that retarded. British has one of the highest perverted individuals with no clue about their lives

Ucheoma said...

So disheartening that a state like ours can still engage in such image laundering in the name of politics just to paint the entire state and the chief executive black. It's too bad.

Anonymous said...

Armed men just stole ur new born baby and u r famished !!! Just saying...

Anonymous said...

only in abia state...

Unknown said...

Kidnap things.... Is ₦5000 note out yet?

Priscy said...

oooh no! this is really sad. chei! God! the mere thought of it gives me goose pimples.

Father God, please help for the safe return of the innocent child, Amen!

Ij said...

I'm from Abia State and I'm ashamed of Floxy and Ucheoma. A family is in sorrow and all you are concerned with is the image of the governor and the state.
Whoever mentioned the governor in the article? Must you bring politics into everything?
If you are not yet a mother, I pray you become one soon so you know that labour pains no be beans.Hisses...

sleekreek said...

God have mercy.......how will this baby feed???who will take good care of him???i just pray he's safe wherever he is and that God brings him back to his mum safely.......

Anonymous said...

U are just a big fool,imagine wot u are saying,security? Nigeria as a whole lacks security not to talk of Abia state,plz just go and park well jorr!

Anonymous said...

He is no bastard. Igbos can do anything for money!!! On this same blog an igboman used d money well meaning nigerians raised for his dying son's surgery. They worship money too much!

ABIABLOGNEWS said...

Police Open Investigation Into The Theft Of A Newborn Baby

According to the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of State CID Umuahia. The investigation into the theft of a newborn baby at a gunpoint at Okaiuga Nkwoegwu in Umuahia last Tuesday at a Private Maternity home has commenced.
Briefly Newsmen in his office, the new Assistant Commissioner of police in charge of the state CID Umuahia Mr. Patrick Garba confirmed that four nurses and the Father of the stolen baby are assisting the police in their investigation. H e assured all of a swift investigation. Meanwhile, some friends to the husband of the wife have testified against him following his remarks before the birth of the baby girl that he will be unwilling to accept a baby girl as a fourth child. Some concerned citizens are also concerned about the father’s brief visit when the child was given birth day and the immediate kidnapped operation that took place a few minute after he stepped out of the clinic. According to the Nurses, the Mother of the child was at the time of the incident; unconscious after the childbirth and that a female child was given birth to, not a male child.


Anonymous said...

Exactly my point. Biafra people!

Anonymous said...

Messed up country..am going out with one of the leaders daughter messing up the country in america am definately taking my share of my money from her in a large scale u lots can't imagine...

Anonymous said...

What are u talking abt cctv for??? They are talking abt a small maternity u are saying cctvM inshort @non ur comment na wa self mtshwwww

Legate said...

I keep on saying this. The 2 major problems we have in 9ja are power failure and police.
No one in his right senses will report a case to 9ja police as eye witness. If u no dey fear cell, try am and u will become the no.1 prime suspect. After they will say police is ur friend. Rubbish!!!

Anonymous said...

Ibos! well determined, the father sounded like a crook, two things:either he wanted him for money rituals or he has sold the boy out with the words of mouth to his enemies.God sees all.

Anonymous said...

Ibos! well determined, the father sounded like a crook, two things:either he wanted him for money rituals or he has sold the boy out with the words of mouth to his enemies.God sees all.

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