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Doctor, Nurses in police net over missing placenta
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
The Kwara State Police Command has commenced a discreet investigation into the mysterious disappearance of umbilical cord and placenta of a newly born baby at Government Cottage Hospital, Iloffa in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of the state last Sunday.
A woman identified as Mrs C. B. A. Williams, a Class Teacher at Orota Secondary School, Odo-Owa in the Oke-Ero council area reportedly gave birth to a baby on Sunday night while the umbilical cord and the placenta were yet to be given to her by the hospital workers as at the time of this report
Five health workers who are suspects in the matter are currently being detained by the General Investigation Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of the command in Ilorin.
The suspects detained by the police late Thursday afternoon after interrogation included one Dr. Ajibola, a resident doctor in the hospital, and three nurses identified as Rukayat Adeloye, Aishat Awolusi, and Peace Alabi as well as Toyin Adewumi, a ward attendant at the hospital.
The police were later involved when efforts to settle the controversy at various layers of hierarchies in the local government failed.
It was further gathered that it took spirited efforts of elders of the Odo-Owa community to calm the fray nerves of restive youths who suspected foul play and were about to burn down the hospital on Tuesday over the incident.
It was gathered that Mrs Williams delivered her baby at the hospital on Sunday night at about 7 pm after hours of labour.
Williams, while narrating her ordeal, said that she was rushed to the hospital while experiencing labour pains on Sunday afternoon and gave birth to a baby at about 7pm the same day.
“I was feeling some labour pains on Sunday and I got to the Cottage hospital, some minutes past 1pm on Sunday, and told the particular Nurse Adeloye I met on duty that I was having contractions. She was the one that attended to me after confirming that I was truly in labour.
“She took me into the labour room and asked me to wait because I still had more time. Not quite long after I came, the doctor also came in and instructed the nurse to usher me into the labour room.
“In the course of the delivery, it was one nurse Alabi who took the delivery, and nurse Adeloye and the Ward Attendant identified as Mrs Toyin were the three people present.
She said that she delivered the baby and was in the hospital till the following morning before she was discharged and allowed to go to her home.
She, however, said that the hospital workers gave her a nylon containing her personal items but did not give her the placenta and the umbilical cord of the baby when they asked her to go home.
“Though they handed a black nylon bag to me I discovered that there are two missing items inside the nylon; those are the umbilical cord and the placenta,” she said.
When contacted, Police Public Relations Officer, Kwara State Police Command, Ejire-Adeyemi Toun, confirmed the incident, adding that the investigation is ongoing.
“The police are investigating the incident and five suspects have been arrested in connection with it, an investigation is still ongoing,” the PPRO said.
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Meta flushes out 1,600 FB groups linked to ‘Yahoo Boys’
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has taken down another 1,600 Facebook groups tied to Yahoo Boys.
This new crackdown followed an earlier purge in July that saw the removal of 63,000 accounts associated with the scam groups, according to its Q1 2024 Adversarial Threat Report.
It also included the deletion of 7,200 assets in Nigeria, including 1,300 Facebook accounts, 200 pages, and 5,700 groups that were providing scam-related resources.
In a statement released on Thursday, Meta disclosed that these groups were involved in recruiting, organising, and training new scammers.
While Meta has been actively removing these violating accounts for years, it announced the implementation of new processes to speed up the identification and removal of such accounts.
The company explained, “Yahoo Boys are banned under Meta’s Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy — one of our strictest policies — which means we remove Yahoo Boys’ accounts engaged in this criminal activity whenever we become aware of them.
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We Were Fed Grasses, Flood Water – Abducted Corps Members Reveal
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
Three, out of the eight corps members from Akwa Ibom State, who were kidnapped in Zamfara State on their way for the mandatory one year national service have recounted their harrowing experiences in their kidnappers’ den.
The victims, before regaining their freedom, stayed between two months and one year in captivity.
Speaking with Daily Post in Akwa Ibom in an interview facilitated by the Founder, Open Forum Care for Humanity Foundation, Matthew Koffi Okono on Thursday, the freed corps members (one female and two males) narrated how they were tortured, fed with grasses and drank flood water.
They thanked governments (Federal and Akwa Ibom State) and the NYSC for interventions and pleaded to be employed in the civil service or have any other rewarding establishments.
The incident happened on August 17, 2023. It was along Gusau road, Zamfara State. You can’t move at speed because of bad spots on the road. They mounted a road block with logs of wood and we thought it was a checkpoint, our driver slowed down waiting for them to remove the blockade.
“Unfortunately, the guys came out, some were wearing kaftans, some put on military camouflage and insignia. They were well armed and they marshalled us out into the bush, including the driver. They carried some of our luggages, stripped us of our belongings, but in the process of taking us into the bush, about three persons escaped.
The place is a forest, it was an open place and there was no shelter, there were only rice sacs which we put on the ground to sleep.
Anytime it rained, we would go under the tree shades for cover until the rains stopped.
All of us, including the kidnappers, stayed there together, they never left us; the only difference is that they held us in captivity and were expecting ransom or money at the end of the day, while we were only expecting our freedom. They are used to that kind of lifestyle while we are not. It was a traumatic experience
There are so many that I don’t know the one that is most traumatic, is it staying in that bush without the sound of anything other than wild animals? I never knew that I would survive it, let alone staying there for several months. We saw snakes, scorpions, even bush dogs. The only thing is that if those bush dogs come, our captors will shoot in the air and they will run and never come back. We’ve killed scorpions, snakes. It was just God that was protecting us there.
How they singled me out and took me to Kaduna
Yes they singled me (Solomon) out and said I’m the most stubborn of us all. This could be because I told them there was no money to pay for my ransom and when they contacted my parents, they also told them that there was no money. They threatened to kill one of us so that we would know that they were serious. I was beaten, tortured and forced to eat grass and drink flood water. Before the grass incident, we stayed for three weeks without food and water. I was later chained and transported from Zamfara to Kaduna on motorcycle through bush tracks.
That was around December, I was very sick; for three months, I couldn’t urinate or defecate, I thought I would die. From the torture and beatings, I had a tear on my head and arms. All these marks on my body (showing off the marks) were from there.
There was nothing like medical care. If you complain, they’ll ask you to sit down. I was just there. I wore the same clothes for the one year I stayed with them and bathed like three times.
Nothing, when I wake up, I’ll just start my own prayer and be sitting down, nowhere to go to, no one to talk to because I was separated from others. Sometimes they asked me to fetch water and I will go with like three armed guards to get it for them.
At some point, I lost hope of coming out alive but I still believed in God. I believed that one day I’ll be released and God did it for me.
As I said I was separated from my colleagues and taken to Kaduna, so on August 22, 2024, about one year and five days, the military came and I was rescued alive. I want to use this opportunity to deeply thank the Army for their gallantry, President Bola Tinubu, Director-General of NYSC, General Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed, Governor Umo Eno, other security operatives, and well-meaning Nigerians for their efforts in securing our freedom
Lady shares experience while in captivity
For me, I stayed there for two months, I gained freedom in October 2023. I never believed that I could survive a day in the forest. As my colleague said, for three weeks, there was nothing like food or water until it rained, we were drinking the flood water. So many of us fell sick. it was horrible, we were kept in a small place and you can’t go anywhere.
The issue is that the people you were facing don’t even understand your dialect or English language, even pidgin. We were trying as much as possible to use sign language to communicate. Also, there’s a way you will behave, they would think you wanted to escape and that would even earn us severe beating. Even as a lady. I wore only one piece of clothing for two months. Even when you are in your period, you are just there, not moving anywhere to clean up. I can’t remember bathing up to three times before I was rescued.
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