Local Gin seller has given birth to
a baby girl inside a tricycle at Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos State.
A 28-year-old woman, identified as
Basirat Ogundeji, went into labour when the bus she boarded at Ikeja on her way
back home developed fault and was being repaired by the bus driver at a bus
stop in Oregun.
When the new mother could no longer
bear the labour pains, she quickly sought the assistance of a woman who was
selling by the roadside.
Basirat, with the assistance of the
woman, took a tricycle to Oregun Flagship Primary Health Centre but gave birth
while they were on the way to the clinic.
The baby’s placenta was later removed
by the nurses on her arrival at the clinic.
The mother of two, while speaking
with P.M NEWS on her hospital bed at Oregun Public Health Centre, said she came
to Lagos after her boyfriend refused to take responsibility for the pregnancy.
“I already had a child for somebody
before I met the man that impregnated me at Aiyetoro, Ogun State. He said he
loved me but when I told him I was pregnant, he gave me some money to abort the
pregnancy and I decided to come to Lagos to make ends meet.
“I knew I was due for delivery that
day but I had not bought anything for the baby yet. In fact I had no money on
me that day and I decided to go and meet a woman at Ikeja who owes me.
“That morning I had to trek to Ojota,
begged for transport fare to Ikeja but unfortunately, I didn’t meet the woman
and I was very confused. I begged for money again but could only raise N50.
“The bus I boarded from Ikeja enroute
Ojota developed fault midway. We were at the bus stop when I felt a sharp pain
in my tummy. Then I knew it was time for me to give birth,” the woman narrated.
She commended the management and
staff of Oregun Public Health Centre for their hospitality and all the well
meaning Nigerians that came to give her items for her baby.
“I never expected to get the kind of
positive treatment they gave me here. They were all homely. The nurses were
nice people and people have been coming in to donate gift items to the baby,”
she said.
She added that once she’s discharged from the
hospital, she would go back to her village in Ogun State.
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God is great.
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