Killing Of Twins Still Existing As NGO Rescues Two In Abuja

Despite the effort put in place by the late Marry Slessor to abort the killing of twins in Nigeria, it is very horrific that a tradition like this still exist in 21st century Nigeria.

A Nigerian maternal health advocate and humanitarian worker, Nkasi Obim Nebo, revealed that a village identified as Kaida, Gwagwalada, on the outskirts of Abuja still practices the hanging of newborn twins to death.

Nebo, who led a team of medical doctors of the PeachAid Medical Initiative to the community, took to social media to share her experience as she turned out to be a live saver in a village where twins are considered evil since time immemorial and are killed (hanged) on the 3day after delivery ‘’because they are evil’.

“As soon as we arrived the community, this woman immediately handed us her newly-born twin babies, asking us to take them away; they were only 2days old.’’ she wrote.

‘’I asked her why she was giving up on her kids; she replied and said they will be killed in few days from today if still with her. She heard we were coming and came out just to give us the babies.

‘’This is her 4th pregnancy, and her 4th set of twins also! Oh yes! You heard me right! Twins are considered as evil in this community since time immemorial, and are killed (hanged) on the third day after delivery.”

The WHISTLER, during an investigation earlier in the year, had visited Vine Heritage Home Foundation, an orphanage home, where most children who have previously been rescued from the horrible practice in Kuje, Abuja, are being kept and catered for.

Mr Steven Olusola and his wife, who manage the foundation since 1995 in Kiyi, Kuje area council, told our reporter that the babies are believed to hold evil omen for their families.

Olusola added that the toddlers are slaughtered immediately after birth at an altar found in common communities in Kuje, Kwali, Abaji and Gwagwalada Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).