Abortion, Is it by force?
A nurse, arrested by the Lagos State Police command for allegedly aborting a foetus, said she did it on a humanitarian ground.
Police was told how Bola Oyekoge took one Serifat to an auxiliary nurse, Bukky Oduntan, who allegedly drugged a soft drink and gave it to her.
After Serifat slept off, the nurse gave her an injection, which allegedly aborted her six-month pregnancy.
Bola and her husband were said to have been married for two years without child. But when she discovered through her husband’s friend that he had put Serifat, 18, in a family way, she vowed to terminate the pregnancy.
It was on the strength of the earlier threat that she allegedly lured Serifat to the nurse’s house, where the illegal act was interrogated by detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos, said Bola lied to her that it was her reason for trying to help her by terminating the pregnancy.
The nurse said: “Bola told me Serifat was her younger sister, impregnated by her husband I promised to terminate the pregnancy. We carried out the abortion during the Ramadan period And I went to Agege to celebrate with member of my family when Bola called me on phone about the abortion. I refused to do it because of the significance of that period.”
According to her, she was paid N2, 500, to perform the abortion. “You can see, I would have charged more than that, if I did it to make money. I did it because of the love I have for her,” she insisted.
Meanwhile, the nurse contradicted herself when she said Serifat complained of stomach ache before she administered a drug to her, which resulted in bleeding, and then, the abortion.
Serifat narrated how Bola accused her of trying to put her and Isiaka asunder. She said Isiaka had promised to marry her, unknown to her that Bola was against the plan.
She narrated how Bola asked her to follow her to see a nurse for a medical check-up, which resulted in the abortion of the foetus.
Prior to the abortion, she said Bola had tried to know if Isiaka was responsible for the pregnancy but she lied to her that it was another man that was responsible.
“I told her lies in order to save my life. But when I woke up, I started feeling pains and it was not ordinary. I quickly left the place but Bola and the nurse followed me to my father’s house, where the foetus finally dropped.”
Isiaka, has, however exonerated himself from the abortion drama. He said: “I want them to face murder charge. I did not tell them to abort the child.”
However, the command’s spokesman, Mr. Frank Mba, a Superintendent, said the police were still investigating the matter. According to him, preliminary investigation revealed that the abortionist is a quack nurse
DAILY SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010
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BY CHRISTOPHER OJI
