A newborn twin was on Wednesday, stolen from the maternity ward at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.
The father of the twins, Ibrahim Dallami Khalid, who spoke to newsmen, after the incident said the baby was stolen by a woman posing as an official of the hospital.
According to Mr Khalid, the woman
came into the ward where his wife and the twins with pretence that one of the twins needed treatment in another ward within the hospital.
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She is said to have left with the baby and never came back.
He said:
“We suspected a woman disguised as an official entered the room during visiting hours and she greeted all the patients there. I saw the woman but I thought that my wife and her mother knew her.
“Later when I left the hospital, my wife asked her mother to bring eggs for her. As she tried to get the eggs, the suspicious woman came again and asked my mother-in-law where she was heading to. She responded and went out.
“The woman used the opportunity to sit close to my wife, told her that one of the twins is not well and she wanted to take the baby to the Special Baby Care. My wife allowed her to take the baby. Since then, there is no information on the baby’s whereabouts.”
Khalid said his wife has been unconscious since the incident happened.
The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, Dr. Haruna Liman, described the incident as an unfortunate development.
“We were told that the culprit has established rapport with the patient and her relative who was staying with her and she had closely monitored their movements.
“When the culprit came to pick one of the babies, the mother voluntarily presented the child to her and nobody suspected anything until she raised the alarm that her baby is no where to be found.”
Spokesperson of the State Police Command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, who confirmed the incident, said investigation had commenced to arrest the suspect(s).
