At about 9.am yest@erday, a mentally ill girl delivered a baby at the popular new barrack bus stop near the Federal Secretariat, Kaduna. The incident brings to three the number of times mentally ill women have delivered babies at that same bus stop in recent times.
The bus stop is just a stone throw from the Kawo police station and the Hassan Usman Katsina, Kaduna State House.
It was gathered that the girl, who has been in that area for almost a year delivered her baby around 9.am unaided, and that it was the cry of the baby that attracted passersby.
It was further gathered that shortly after she delivered, women passing by rushed to her, and used their wrappers and head-ties to cover her. They women barred men who were passing by from getting close.
An elderly woman, who works with a Federal Government’s agency at the secretariat, Lami Bulus, confirmed it that, that was the third time a mentally ill woman was delivering at the bus stop.
“This has become something else because this is the third time this type of thing is happening here. To our surprise, she delivered safely though she wanted to kill the baby afterwards. The men impregnating these women are doing it in order to get worldly things. May God expose them because it is unfortunate,” she said.
A trader in the area, urged the Kaduna State government to extend to the girl the same gesture it extended to a mentally ill woman who delivered sometime ago.
“When Bola, a mentally ill girl delivered here sometime ago, she was taken to a psychiatric hospital, and her baby was taken to the social welfare department. Bola has since recovered, and has returned to Kabba in Kogi State, her state of origin,” the trader said.
She urged the state government to device means of apprehending the men who are impregnating the women.
Wishing the mother and daughter the best in life...
