Leadership (Abuja)
Oliver Ndife
18 November 2008
Umuahia — Nigerians have been urged to assist government in the fight against unwanted pregnancies and sexual abuse of women with mental illness by reporting such criminals to the appropriate authority.
The Abia Commissioner For Women Affairs, Lady Chinedu Brown, who stated this when she visited the mentally unbalanced woman who gave birth to a baby boy at Isi-gate in Umuahia and later taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, said such barbaric acts were perpetrated by people and warned them to desist from it.
Lady Brown said that information available to her ministry showed that the mentally ill woman hailed from Umuagbalu in Ikwuano local government area, adding that her husband had been traced and appealed to public-spirited individuals and non- governmental organisations to assist in the up-keep of the baby.
In his reaction, the husband of the woman, Mr. Godwin Irobundu, said his wife's sickness started after their fourth child, adding that since then, she had given birth to two more children for unknown persons.
Irobundu, therefore, called on the state government to carryout a permanent family planning on the sick wife to avoid her another unwanted pregnancy.
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