Shocking Discovery: Health Worker Reveals Abuja Village Where Newborn Twins Are Hanged to Death
It’s no news that the killing of twins in Nigeria was abolished decades ago, but a surprising discovery has been made, of a village in Abuja where twins are still being killed by hanging on the third day after delivery.
If not for an unexpected stroke of luck, a set of twins would, by now, have been hanged to death in Kaida Village, Gwagwalada, situated at the outskirts of Abuja, the capital.
Thanks to a Nigerian maternal health advocate and humanitarian worker, Nkasi Obim Nebo, who led a team of PeachAid Medical Initiative medical doctors to Kaida to expose the evil practice of the residents.
Nkasi disclosed further that the humanitarian workers arrived at the village one day before the twins’ scheduled death. When they got into Kaida, the mother of the set of twins walked up to Nkwasi seeking help.
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Narrating the experience on Facebook, Nkwasi wrote:
”As soon as we arrived the community, this woman immediately handed us her newly-born twin babies, asking us to take them away; they were only 2 days old.
I asked her why she was giving up on her kids, she replied and said they will be killed in few days from today if still with her. She heard we were coming and came out just to give us the babies!
This is her 4th pregnancy, and her 4th set of twins also! Oh yes! You heard me right! Twins are considered as evil in this community since time immemorial, and are killed (hanged) on the third day after delivery.”
In an earlier post, the Peach Aid CEO had narrated how the Initiative, comprising medical doctors from Garki Hospital, Abuja, and other medical personnel, distributed contraceptives to the villagers.
She wrote:
”During our health intervention at Kaida Village, Gwagwalada, FCT, we made sure every woman got their choice of contraceptives which will last for 5years, and that the men present also got condoms as many as they wanted.
We distributed clean delivery kits to prevent infection and bleeding at child birth; we checked their sugar level, and their blood pressure; we administered Vitamin A supplements for all the children between the age of six months to five years.”
Photo credit: Nkasi Obim Nebo/ Facebook
Killing of twins in this age and time? Smh.