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...For a better society... Monday, August 30 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Opinion Labour Politics Sports Features Columnists Business Money/Market Energy Alaba Market Foreign News Ebonyi Siamese twins: Community pledges aid KENNETH OFOMA, Abakaliki MESSAGES have been despatched abroad while community associations have been placed on alert in Umuakuma and Okposi, Ebonyi State, as the residents move to assist the widow and mother of Siamese twins, Mrs. Happiness Uloma Ajah. The widow was, last Tuesday, delivered of a set of female Siamese twins joined in the chest area, at Okposi General Hospital. Mrs. Ajah, 33, who lost her husband 12 years ago, was pressured by her in-laws to make more babies for the family in line with the local custom. The twins, who weighed only 2.7 kilogrammes at birth, and their mother are presently at the paediatric ward of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu awaiting separation surgery in three months’ time. Speaking to Daily Champion, the traditional ruler of Okposi, Eze Benedict Agwu said the community was over-joyed by the good news of the successful delivery. The royal father said he had set the machinery in motion for the community to assist in providing needed material and financial assistance to the widow and her children. Also speaking with Daily Champion, the village head of Umuakuma (the widow’s in-laws area, Chief Lawrence Okereke said beyond local assistance, messages for help have been sent to kinsmen abroad and in other parts of Nigeria. Said Eze Agwu: "We have raised alarm to all the associations within our community to contribute any little thing they have towards saving those children. We are prepared. The community is quite prepared even now. Their particular village, Umuakuma, is now getting ready to look for things like baby food and so forth to carry to them, which may be done within the coming week, Monday (today) or Tuesday." According to the royal father, the widow did not lie to the public in disclosing how she came about the twins, describing her as an honest and decent person. "She had two children already...her husband died and she refused getting another issue outside. The husband (a local government driver) was a Christian, she is also a Christian...The husband’s family were disturbing her to look for more children, as her late husband was the only son of his own late mother." On his part, Chief Okereke said "it is our custom here. If you are a woman of reproductive age and you lose your husband, you can bear more children to add to those you already have." � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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