If you can remember the
story that went viral, of the student of
OAU who gave birth in the school toilet and was rumoured to have made attempts
to flush her baby down the toilet? After the alleged case of trying to get rid
of the baby, the School Authority expressed its disappointment over the initial
social media reports and have confirmed otherwise. They also reiterated that
it's not illegal for a student to have a baby while still in the University; so
there are no disciplinary measures taken
against her.
In spite of the ordeal she
had been through since last Wednesday, the 22 year old, 400 level student of
Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology , a native of Ijabe, a border town
between Osun and Kwara states, says she is happy that the embarrassment she
received from the controversy that surrounded the birth of her baby has turned
into a blessing for her.
She says the baby’s birth
has made her more popular and important in the society.
Read what she told Punch
after the cut....
‘God has the best plan for
me’
“Why would I flush or kill my baby after
going through the pains of carrying him for about good nine months? I am not
heartless and I thank God for my life and the safe delivery. I know God has the
best plan for me and my baby. I seriously appreciate the cleaners for their assistance
because I got here (health centre) before I understood everything that happened
to me. I am happy that I am alive and my baby is alive too. I’m also using this
opportunity to thank the VC, the doctors and nurses, my lecturers and everybody
because they all stood by me. They all became my father, my mother and
everything to me.
“Right now, I can call myself a celebrity
and definitely I’m going to be greater than a celebrity. My baby too is going
to be great. Look at the circumstance that surrounds his birth, just some days
old, he is already all over in the news around the world and everybody is happy
to see him or hear about his story. He will surely go beyond where I am now. He
has turned me into a kind of celebrity. ”
Circumstances surrounding
the baby’s birth
“I was purging all through the night and I
had no idea of what labour pain was all about. Actually, I was feeling pressed,
I can’t call it a labour pain because I was visiting the toilet all through the
night till that morning. I just went to the toilet to go and purge when I
noticed something just came out of me which I found out was the baby. The baby
entered the closet. I was just there shouting, bleeding and people who saw the
blood came out to help me alongside the baby.
“I was really scared! I was not expecting a
baby. I went to the toilet but seeing a baby was terrifying because I was not
expecting him or her to come out yet. It is absolutely not true that I took to
my heels when people came to help me. It happened in Moremi Hall toilet and the
toilet is a public one where everybody takes their bath, fetch water and clean
up. So, some people were around fetching water, having their bath as usual,
while I was in the toilet planning to defecate. My friend called the cleaner for
help because she was an elderly woman. I was very scared and people around too
couldn’t help because we are all young female students. The cleaner later
helped to carry the baby out and brought it to the Health Centre along with
me.”
Her plan for the baby
“I will continue to keep him more handsome,
healthier and nurture him to attain greater height in life. But what he will
become later in life is not for me to decide but he will definitely become what
God wants him to become. I will just try to train him in God’s way and I am
sure His (God) plan for his life will be realised.”
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