Oh, before you proceed, she says she is now a celeb – cos she’s been in the news for days now, lol!
down the toilet? Well, in spite of the trauma she had passed 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 below:‘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.”