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According to a report by Daily Trust, one of the persons displaced by
armed bandits in one of the 16 villages in Igabi Local Government Area
of Kaduna State has been delivered of twins after trekking for three
days to arrive at the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp located along
Kaduna- Zaria Highway.
The woman, Hadiza Suleiman, from Dallatu – one of the villages displaced
– was nine months pregnant when the bandits ordered them to leave.
Some of the villagers arrived LEA Primary School, Birnin Yero, on Sunday
last week but Hadiza, according to her husband Suleiman Bala, went into
labour immediately they arrived the camp and was rushed to a
traditional birth attendant home at Birnin Yero village where she gave
birth.
“She started labour before we arrived this camp but there was no way we
could stop since we were all afraid the bandits maybe after us.
“But immediately we arrived after trekking for 3 days, she went into labour and we took her to a traditional birth attendance,” he said.
When Daily Trust met the nursing mother, she was still looking very weak due to fatigue and lost of much blood during delivery.
”I thank God I delivered the twins, a boy and a girl, safely but I’m
still very weak because the woman said I needed blood and my husband
doesn’t have money and we can’t return to our village in this
condition,” she said.
The middle-aged traditional birth attendant, who identified herself as
Ladi, said when they brought her (Dije) in labour, she couldn’t reject
her because they were displaced from their villages.
“I helped her to deliver the twins but the truth is she is still very
weak and needs blood. The husband doesn’t have money which is why they
are still here with me,” she said.