Gbenro Adesina
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Katsina State Council, on Wednesday August 5, 2020 disowned two suspected female nurses who were arrested on Monday by officers of the Katsina Police Command for alleged attempt to sell a newborn baby girl to one Eucharia Onyema.
The chairman of the Katsina state council of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Haruna Mamman, disclosed this on Wednesday in a press conference held at the State Secretariat of the state council.
Mamman told reporters that the association swung into action immediately to authenticate the identity, membership, and qualifications of the two suspects identified as Misira Tijjani and Grace Ejigu of the Okmos Clinic in Kofar Kaura quarters, Katsina state, and concluded that the two suspected female nurses were fake and impostors.
“We visited the hospital and interviewed both the proprietor of the hospital, Dr. E.E Eze. The two impostors in question and our findings revealed that they are fake and impostors.
“The proprietor of the hospital and the two impostors, even admitted that they were not trained and qualified nurses.
“We complained to the Deputy Commissioner of Police in his office and before everyone present, they confessed that they were not Nurses, whereas a day before, they told the police authority that they were nurses.
“We will pursue this matter to its logical conclusion, they will be prosecuted for impersonation and defamation of character,” Mamman added.
The Katsina State police spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, had disclosed in a press briefing held at the police headquarters, Katsina, that on July 25, 2020, at about 10 a.m., one Shamsiya Sani, 25, who resides in Dandagoro Quarters, Katsina, was delivered of a baby girl at Okomos Clinic, Kofar Kaura Quarters, Katsina.
She later abandoned the child at the hospital with a hand written note stating that the baby was born out of wedlock hence the abandonment.
“Two nurses of the hospital, Misira Tijjani, 35, of Filin Canada Quarters, Katsina, and Grace Ejigu, 43, of Shagari Low cost, Katsina, conspired and took the baby out of the clinic to one Eucharia Onyema, 45, of Sabuwar Kasuwa Quarters, Katsina, ” he said.
According to him, the police apprehended the suspects based on a tip off.
“Nemesis caught up with them on their way from the hospital to their houses with the baby through the help of a tricycle rider who suspected them of stealing the baby,” he said.
However, when interviewed by newsmen, the suspects denied selling the baby, they insisted that they gave Eucheria Onyema the baby on humanitarian grounds, since she had no child.
They, however, said that they took the decision without informing the hospital management.
