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Detained Twins Taken Home Five Months After Delivery

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Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 01:40 PM

Written by Agbai Ogele Omerikpo

Detained Twins Taken Home Five Months After Delivery

A set of twin boys and their mother who were held by a maternity home in Imo State over medical bills have been taken to their home five months after delivery.

The twins namely Chidindu and Chijindu and their 19-year-old mother were taken to their home in Ihiagwa, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State on Saturday to the delight of relations and indigenes.

The twins and their mother were barred by the doctor from leaving the maternity over inability to offset the huge medical bills charged by the maternity.

Our correspondent gathered that efforts made to address the plight of the twins and their mother failed till a human rights activist and journalist, Chidiebube Okeoma stepped into the matter.

Okeoma told our correspondent that he was not the first to reach out to the doctor to discharge the babies and their mother but the doctor bluntly refused.

The journalist disclosed that he did not only raise money to pay the medical charge but also sought the intervention of the state Commissioner of Police, CP Aboki Danjuma before the doctor reluctantly agreed to allow them home.

He expressed his profound gratitude to the Commissioner of Police for his intervention which expedited the release of the threesome and their return home.

He said that the CP's intervention after the doctor admitted before the CP to have 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 on May 4, he and his team bought food items, diapers and gave a cash of N100,000 to the mother of the babies.

Okeoma said that the gesture was made possible following the support he got from compassionate Nigerians who heard the plight of the kids and their mother through him on the social media.

Okeoma urged the CP to charge the doctor with hostage taking, abuse of the medical ethics and attempt to compromise the identities of the twins.

Okeoma said that his team wasn't the first to come for discharge of the twins but the doctor kept hiking the delivery bill.

The journalist also urged the CP to investigate the assault which the doctor and his nurses unleashed on the 19- year-old nursing mother and the kids' grandmother leading to loss of their phones.

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Detained Twins Taken Home Five Months After Delivery

A set of twin boys and their mother who were held by a maternity home in Imo State over medical bills have been taken to their home five months after delivery.

The twins namely Chidindu and Chijindu and their 19-year-old mother were taken to their home in Ihiagwa, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State on Saturday to the delight of relations and indigenes.

The twins and their mother were barred by the doctor from leaving the maternity over inability to offset the huge medical bills charged by the maternity.

Our correspondent gathered that efforts made to address the plight of the twins and their mother failed till a human rights activist and journalist, Chidiebube Okeoma stepped into the matter.

Okeoma told our correspondent that he was not the first to reach out to the doctor to discharge the babies and their mother but the doctor bluntly refused.

The journalist disclosed that he did not only raise money to pay the medical charge but also sought the intervention of the state Commissioner of Police, CP Aboki Danjuma before the doctor reluctantly agreed to allow them home.

He expressed his profound gratitude to the Commissioner of Police for his intervention which expedited the release of the threesome and their return home.

He said that the CP's intervention after the doctor admitted before the CP to have 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 on May 4, he and his team bought food items, diapers and gave a cash of N100,000 to the mother of the babies.

Okeoma said that the gesture was made possible following the support he got from compassionate Nigerians who heard the plight of the kids and their mother through him on the social media.

Okeoma urged the CP to charge the doctor with hostage taking, abuse of the medical ethics and attempt to compromise the identities of the twins.

Okeoma said that his team wasn't the first to come for discharge of the twins but the doctor kept hiking the delivery bill.

The journalist also urged the CP to investigate the assault which the doctor and his nurses unleashed on the 19- year-old nursing mother and the kids' grandmother leading to loss of their phones.

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