Saturday, February 25, 2017







Meet Kaduna lady who’s raising 5 abandoned babies

By Maryam Ahmadu-Suka & Ra’afat Maccido, Kaduna | Publish Date: Aug 13 2016 5:00AMMeet Kaduna lady who’s raising 5 abandoned babies

n Hajiya Uwani with some of her adopted children.

Tucked in a corner in an area called Ungwan Kaji, in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, is a house where abandoned babies and children get succour from. A housewife named Hajiya Uwani Yusuf Waziri, also known as ‘Uwar Marayu’ (‘Mother of Orphans’ in Hausa), though not rich materially, is wealthy with a kind heart, and has vowed to take care of any abandoned baby or child brought to her doorstep. 

When Daily Trust visited Uwar Marayu’s home, there was a warm welcome from a 5-year-old who later turned out to be one of that household’s wards. Excitedly, the mother of 11 - who’s now a mother of 18 - gathered all the children for a photo, after excusing the two eldest girls, as she didn’t want them to know they are abandoned children. 

The abandoned children she found over the years and is raising were previously seven in number, including Hajara (5), Fatima (5), Halimatu (7 months), Khadija (6 months), Zainab (2 weeks). But Ibrahim and Jamila died recently due to pneumonia and HIV.  
Speaking passionately about the children, Hajiya Uwani said she would not have been able to take care of the children without the support of her husband and her biological children. “I was born and brought up in Tudun Wada, Kaduna, before I got married a long time ago to Alhaji Isuhu Waziri and relocated to Ungwan Kaji. My marriage is blessed with 11 children and seven adopted ones, and I must mention here that without the support of my husband and my children, only Allah knows how I would have been able to take care of the children.” 
“My oldest child is 38, and the youngest is seven, so I had time to take care of the babies most of whom were less than a week old when they were brought to me.”
She told Daily Trust: “When the children are found, they are taken to the house of the District Head (Hakimi) and he then sends them to me. The children were found all within Rigachikun including Barakallahu, Hayin Na Iya and other areas along the Zaria expressway.”
On how she is able to cater for the needs of the children, she said, “I do not have any standard business. It’s just the petty businesses that we women do at home.  The babies do not take breast milk, we feed them with baby milk, and buy them disposable diapers, which is the hardest part it all. We have tried so many times to reach the government to come to our aid, to no avail. We keep receiving promises especially from the local government chairmen of different regimes, but that’s it. And as we all know, whosoever helps another, Allah will help that person as well. I take these children under my care for Allah’s sake with the hope of getting the reward from Allah. That is why I am struggling and putting my best to bringing them up.” 
Asked what challenge she is facing, she said: “The milk for the babies and diapers are my biggest challenge. I do not want anyone to give me money, but if they can provide just the milk and diapers, I would really appreciate it.”
On what future she wants for the children, she said: “My desire is for Allah to give me long life so that I can educate them, so they grow up to be successful in life, and they will be the pride of everyone. I am very certain that even when I am no more, my children will never disown or humiliate them because they love them whole eartedly as if they are related by blood. That is why I pray to get help to send them to the best schools, so they can be great.”
On mothers who abandon babies, Uwar Marayu said they should fear Allah. “I pray to Him to guide them to the right path. And on our part, we mothers contribute a lot to this menace, as when our young girls become pregnant we refuse to accept them. We only fear the shame, and forget fate. We should always accept fate, and our children if we find them in such situation, show them love and above all, pray for them.” 
Uwar Marayu said the idea of terminating the pregnancy, killing the baby or abandoning it is like a go-ahead from the part of the mother for the daughter to repeat the same mistake over and over again. “We should accept fate and guide or children through their mistakes. Isn’t that why Allah made us parents, to raise our kids with love and care?”

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Transformation of boy dumped at a refuse heap

 Abandoned child ‘witch’ begins school one year after amazing recovery










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PARENTAL rejection of a child as young as two, who was dumped at a refuse heap to fend for himself, sounds like a fairy tale.  But it is not! It is a heart-searing, inhuman chronicle of a little Nigerian boy known as Hope. He was demonised by his parents as a “witch” and cast away. He scavenged for food for eight months to survive. This is a most barbaric act and irresponsible parenting.
 As his parents abandoned him, so did the society. Not even the Akwa Ibom State Government could come to his rescue. He looked so anaemic that he could barely stand on his feet. With a body seemingly charred, he could have been mistaken for a victim of a fuel inferno, or a malnourished child at a time of war, starving to death.
But the ennobling value of human kindness ultimately prevailed over this savagery, thanks to Anja Ringgren Loven, a young charity worker from Denmark. After reading about Hope’s horrific abuse, she came to Nigeria to rescue him; cleaned him up and put him through a cocktail of medical and psychological rehabilitation, as one newspaper reported recently. He is now in a care centre run by the African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation, a charity founded by Loven, and her husband, David. Through the foundation, a total of 34 children are being helped to overcome their worst nightmares early in life.
The traumatic narrative went viral on the internet when Hope’s benefactor exposed it as she solicited global assistance. It provoked instant sympathy and empathy, which climaxed in the $1 million that has been raised for his upkeep. “With all the money, we can, besides giving Hope the very best treatment, now also build a doctor (medical) clinic… and save more children out of torture,” Loven says. Amazingly, the boy’s condition has changed; one year after, he currently exudes the warmth that deserted him under his parents. He has just started schooling this month.
To imagine that the boy passed through this ordeal in a state that claimed “uncommon transformation” in governance between 2007 and 2015 is sickening. It diminished all, who, either by commission or omission made the boy’s suffering to escape public attention. Labelling children as wizards is a primitive cultural belief that is common in the state. It underscores the need for transformation of the mind.  It is primordial for such a practice to remain part of a people’s belief system in the 21st century.
Besides the demented parents, the state government shares much of the blame. The Child Rights Act, which the state assembly passed and was assented to in 2008 by the then governor, Godswill Akpabio, provides enough protection for the traumatised toddler. As this case has exposed, the law, for all practical purposes, is ineffectual. Who are the biological parents of Hope? Their identities seem to have been lost. The state should locate them and cause the full weight of the law to be visited on them.  It is the bounden duty of government to protect children, especially the underage, as the most vulnerable in the society, through the enforcement of its writs and public policies that safeguard their lives.
Apart from parents and local spiritualists, this perverse cultural practice in the state is being spread by some religious groups with their “witches and wizards” gospel.  One of them, led by a woman, states in its pamphlet: “If a child under the age of two screams in the night…and is always feverish with deteriorating health, he or she is a servant of Satan.” Many parents have been led astray; and this may well be the provenance of Hope’s trauma. Such fallacious evangelism is deep-rooted there. In 2008, a self-styled bishop allegedly confessed to killing 110 children stigmatised as witches and wizards.  As the shameful incident went global, the state government filed criminal charges against him.
A toddler could be sick, just like an adult. Teething in a child is a growth process that goes with pains, which could provoke him/her to cry. Hunger could also induce unease or pain in a child at night. Therefore, it is wrong and criminal to demonise a child that cries in the night. No child is safe in this environment if this warped understanding of the Holy Writ is not checked.
But Hope is just one out of the growing legion of children who have become victims of the benumbing narrative of sorcery; and the attacks and killings that come in its wake.  More cases are unreported, which means likely death for the victims. In November 2014, a 10-year-old orphan, Usen Okon, from Ikot Abasi area of the same state, was forced by his step-mother to confess to being a wizard. To get rid of him, his uncle threw him into the Imo River with the hope that he would drown. But he was rescued; on returning home, he was told that his uncle had relocated.
Undoubtedly, Akwa Ibom is not the only state involved in this retrogression of civilisation. Almost every state is as guilty. The Igbo of the South-East, for instance, are mired in the Osu caste system, which demonises some individuals as outcasts on account of their forebears having allegedly been sacrificed to the gods.  Last week, Oluwaseye Ayoola, aged 51, axed his 81-year-old mother to death in the Ajah area of Lagos State, for allegedly being a witch, claiming that she caused his failure in life.
Existential challenges are sometimes a springboard of delirium or mental disorder, which could mislead some people to see their abnormal situations only from the prism of evil afflictions. UNICEF corroborated this in its 2009 report entitled: “Children Accused of Witchcraft.” It emphasised that social and economic pressures like poverty, conflict, urbanisation and HIV/AIDS appear to have increased the rate of witchcraft charge against minors.
Therefore, this presents a serious challenge to orthodox religious and non-profit organisations to mount a serious campaign to wean those involved off the belief. Social Welfare departments in all states should stop their indolence and play active role in saving children caught in this labyrinth. Again, Child Rights Act should cease from being a docile writ. As a people, it challenges our humanity to be our brother’s keeper and expose the devotees of this archaic, unlawful practice to law enforcement agencies for necessary action.

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