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Day-old baby, considered evil because mom died at childbirth, dumped at Abuja orphanage
The travails of newborn baby, whose mother died during childbirth, has been revealed on social media by one Chigozie Effe.
According to her, the baby, who is yet to be christened was abandoned on Monday, June 17, 2019 at the premises of Vine Hope Rescue Home, Kuje, Abuja.
According to Effe, the child’s mum is a native of Bassa Kuomo, one of the “44 villages in Abuja still practising the killing of twins as well burying children whose mum died in the process of giving birth to them.”
She added that “any child that is giving birth to and the mum dies in the process is considered evil and he is buried with the mum”.
She wrote,
Travails of a week old baby
Chigozie Effe
The joy of every nursing mother is to behold to countenance of her bundle of joy at birth but when she dies while bringing life it raises so much concerns and in other climes, the child is seen as bad luck.
Be that as it may, every child is a blessing from God no matter the circumstance in which the child came to the world.
The yet to be christened baby as seen in the photo below is a victim of circumstance. His mum, a native of Bassa Kuomo, Abuja, died in the process of giving birth to him.
Bassa Kuomo, it must be noted, is among the 44 villages in Abuja still practising the killing of twins as well burying children whose mum died in the process of giving birth to them.
For the villagers who are mainly traditionalists and are yet to embrace Christianity, any child that is giving birth to and the mum dies in the process is considered evil and he is buried with the mum.
This newborn baby was dumped last Monday, June 17, 2019 at the premises of Vine Hope Rescue Home, Kuje, Abuja.
This baby like many others have been rescued and kept at the Rescue Home for safekeeping and returned back when the management of the Home is sure that such practices have stopped.
The baby who has not tasted breast milk needs all the support to stay alive.
Vine Heritage Rescue Home is a home to no fewer than 156 children rescued from communities in Abuja still practising killing of babies.
According to some of the natives of Abuja, the killing of the babies at birth bring bountiful harvest and remove all forms of bad luck from their communities as they pay homage to their deity.
It would be recalled that the FCT administration under Bala Mohammed carried out an investigation in these communities and came out with its report titled, Infanticide in Abuja” in 2013.
The investigation which took the administration 6 months to carry out, shut the mouths of some natives of Abuja who had carried out a protest on Pastor Stevens, founder of the Vine Heritage Home.
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