An attempt by the Hon. Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social
Development in Imo State, Mrs. Nma Love Onyechere to forcefully snatch
a new born baby girl from her mother has set her hometown, Ihitte
Ihube Community in Okigwe Local Government, literally ablaze.
According to village sources, the community is currently boiling over
the commissioner's order for the arrest of a widow in the area by the
police.
Trouble, according to sources, erupted when the Commissioner
forcefully attempted to collect a baby girl delivered by a popular mad
woman in Ihube who handed and kept the child under the custody of a
widow, Mrs. Mercelina Nwamgboko.
The Commissioner, sources disclosed, became infuriated when her
entreaties to hoodwink and takeover the baby from the widow proved
abortive, which prompted her to arrest the poor widow, an attempt that
attracted the anger of Ihitte Ihube people who besieged Okigwe Police
Station.
At the station, the irate crowd threatened to set the station ablaze
if the police and Mrs. Onyechere refused to release the widow who they
described as a very kind-hearted woman that deserves commendation and
not to be victimized for being a Good Samaritan.
They confirmed that it was the widow who took care and catered for the
mad woman during her pregnancy and also engaged the services of a
nurse, one Mrs. Uhio to assist in delivering the mad woman of the baby
girl during labour.
It was the intervention of the Transition Committee, TC, Chairman of
Okigwe Local Government, Pastor Frank Onwumere that saved the
situation and prevented the angry mob from venting their anger on the
police station and causing mayhem in Okigwe metropolis.
On the plea of the TC boss, the widow was released on bail to one
Charles Aruakpa, a community leader from the area while the people of
Ihitte Community sources disclosed have contacted their lawyer to slug
it out with the Women Affairs Commissioner.
They accused, and blasted her for" habitually hoodwinking and
collecting babies from unsuspecting mothers, especially, widows and
young girls after describing the babies as vulnerable children only to
sell the babies in the long run".
It would be recalled that the commissioner was accused by the
villagers in the past of hoodwinking two young girls who gave birth
out of wedlock and collected their babies in the pretext that they
would be taken to motherless babies' home.
But investigation by the villagers showed that the babies were sold by
the commissioner as they were never seen again.
--247ureports
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