Displaced Borno woman gives birth to ‘Buhari’
Aisha Usman, one of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the Lamido Lawan model primary school, Girei, Adamawa state Nigeria, has named her newborn baby after President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, following his victory at the march 28 election.
Usman, who put to bed in the period between the presidential and governorship elections, said she named her baby “in honour of the general” to remind herself of the circumstances of the boy’s birth.
“He is exactly one-month old today,” she said on Friday when TheCable visited.
Usman and her husband were displaced from Askira Uba local government of Borno state when Boko Haram invaded their community in November 2014. She was pregnant at the time and fled to Yola, where she discovered the IDP camp in Girei, a town in Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria.
She was delivered of her “general” at the camp’s maternity being run by about three health and environmental officers.
At the maternity home, which used to be the assistant head master’s office prior to its conversion to a maternity home, Helen Mamza, an environmental health officer and Jummai Mahmuda, a community health extension worker from Madagali, Borno state, were taking a nap after the conclusion of the day’s ante-natal check up.
While sharing their experience with TheCable, they said they could take naps because patients had reduced drastically, compared with about 50-60 people who came daily a few months ago.
“We can’t say this is the number of deliveries we have had since November (2014), but since December 26, we have had three deliveries and one of them gave birth to a twin.
“The first delivery we had this month, precisely May 4, was a twin – male and female. They are also IDPs but they are not living in the camp. Some of them live here in the camp – the hostels. They sometimes hold the naming ceremony here and we even circumcise the male children.”
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Mamza (L) and Mahmadu (R)
Both women said they had lost their loved ones to Boko Haram, but they were trying to build new families, from the surviving relatives and other IDPs.
“We lost many of our family members. I lost father, my uncles to Boko Haram,” Mahmadu lamented.
On the other hand, Mamza had to inherit her brother’s six children.
“I lost my elder brother, he had six children,” she said. “All his children are here and I am the one taking care of them.”
TheCable also visited the camp’s isolation ward meant for patients with Guinea pox, measles, acute diarrhoea and other contagious diseases. Largely equipped by the International Rescue Committee, the ward is now empty, as previous patients have been discharged.
Simon Kolawole, dis is not the kind of news items we are expecting from the stable of a newpaper published by a respected journalist like u.
Except u want to say u v gone the way of Peoples daily, Leadership and Daily Trust in the worship of their ‘god’ Buhari otherwise there is no news in dis item.
Tell us something worth reading not dis, if some people like they can rename Nigeria after Buhari but one thing is sure: God cannot share His Glory wit any man, Period.
All we want to see is 1 dollar to 1 Naira, 40 Naira for a litre of fuel, 3 million job per year and end to poverty within one year, any other thing NA STORYYYY.
Hi,
Do you know you are not forced to read this story or read from this site,Which of these stories have you being able to garther for people to read? Making $1 to 50k is a collective responsibility of all Nigerian in which you are one. Go or tell your brothers to return all the stolen money, and stop personalising issues. Let me advice you when you read a story and you seems not to have interest in it Delete it immediately.
So it has now become d responsibility of evryone to make 1 dollar equal to 1 naira but wen they were contesting election they said Goodluck is clueless dat they v clues now they r shifting goal post in d middle of d match.
I dey laugh ooo.
Wen Goodluck needed to support of citizens of d north to fight Boko Haram they refused him bt blaimed him for human right abuses now Buhari need d people’s cooperation to perform d magic he promised. Now, d chicken v come home to roast.
God pass dem!
@ Salamjay very well said! I guess Salam has never been in a life and death situation, as such he cannot appreciate the act of someone who stared death in the face and got a second chance at life. I think it’s cruel to make light of someone who has just gotten.a second chance at life. Salam has spoken like a person with personal grievances against Buhari. We should learn to put aside sentiments and do what is right for our nation as the bickering is doing a lot of damage to the nation. Let’s support the one who puts the interest of nation ahead of his own personal gains irrespective of his background!! We don’t want to destroy this nation! Enough harm has been done already. If things get better it’s to the benefit of all Nigerians!
Only in God’s Kingdom can mankind get satisfaction, Buhari as failed before and can’t do more
If he has failed before why then do 14million people preferred him on the 28th of April to your brother. Wait and see what God will do through him. The first time you said he failed, it was you people that made him failed. But i can assure you let all the armed robbers in the house garthered, let all the phycophants come together, let all the political harlots joined APC, let all the abanije destroyers garthered. God is through with Nigeria and He is walking through it. Wait and see what will happen in the next 6months after May 29. But stay in your party and get ready for another defeat.