Mrs Eudora Michael, 35 says her nine month old Oyintari
Michael whose penis was cut off during an ill-fated circumcision was at risk
and in excruciating pains and desperately needs medical help.
The mother said on Monday at Federal Medical Centre,
Yenagoa that she and her husband were indigent and cannot afford the specialized
care the baby needs to stay alive.
“Since this sad incident occurred in February this year,
we have been running around to raise money , we have borrowed up and down and
are in big debt, my husband has gone to village to gather money but people are not
forthcoming.
“People who had given us loan are not willing to give us
more when we have not paid what we borrowed.
“We are even surviving at the mercy of doctors who are
spending their own money when they see that we are unable to provide the drugs
they prescribe, the baby is in pains, always crying he cannot urinate and his
bladder is swollen.
“I have to stand near the bed or bend down to breastfeed
him so that the pipes connected into his genitals doesn’t shift and go off and
further complicate the situation,” she said
She appealed to the wife of Bayelsa Government Dr Rachael
Dickson , and kind hearted Nigerians to assist financially with medical bills
to save her baby, and that her jobless husband had no means to settle the
exorbitant medical cost.
The baby according to medical sources at the hospital
lost a lot of blood, but has been stabilised and may be scheduled for
corrective plastic surgery to reconstruct the urinary system to enable him pass
urine normally.
Michael accused her step-father Mr Ziworitin Keke, 59 of
deliberately cutting off her nine month oil baby’s penis during circumcision.
It will be recalled that the incident occurred at
Odenwari, a coastal settlement in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of
Bayelsa on Feb. 5, 2017.
Michael, a mother of eight children, four male and four
female noted that the nine month old Master Oyintari is her first child to be
circumcised by Keke.
Michael alleged that
Keke ‘did it out of ‘malice’.
She explained that the pains caused by the incident was too
excruciating for a nine month old boy to bear.
“It is not a mistake at all as its being speculated. On
that day I was asleep and the man sent a message that I should bring my baby
for circumcision, my husband is still angry because I didn’t tell him.
“My husband and I had no immediate plan to circumcise our
baby that day, because he has been sick since birth. I carried the baby to him
and he cut off his genitals completely after checking the length.
“I was disturbed because the baby cried much more than
two other babies he had circumcised without complications. When I checked the
boy I saw the cut, he said that the penis shrunk inside and will come out after
treatment.
“I was not convinced , I knew there was danger and I took
my baby to a health centre outside our community at Krokrosei after he told me
to leave the baby with him for three weeks,” she said.
She alleged that her step father had earlier raped her 13
year old girl and got her pregnant and the product of that sinful act, a baby
boy is with her mother, “this time he wants my son to die.”
According to her, the rape of her 13 year old daughter
was not reported to the Police, but the church where her sep-father functions
as a clergyman suspended him for two years as a punishment.
Meanwhile Police authorities in Bayelsa on Monday
confirmed the arrest of Keke.
Asinim Butswat , a Deputy Superintendent of Police
confirmed the development on Monday saying that Keke was arrested on Saturday.
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