By Akpokona Omafuaire, Warri. Like the Biblical woman with the issue of blood, Miss Nsifon Edet peters, a 21 years old widow stormed the Uyo township stadium, Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria, venue of the South-South Solidarity Rally for President Goodluck Jonathan/Sambo on 13th September, 2010, convened by South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, though not to touch Christ as the former but to attempt to get government attention for her ailing daughter little Victoria Asuquo, aged 4yrs and 7months. She was laughed at, pushed around, despised and humiliated, at last she succumbed to the threat by mobile policemen that she should leave, but she was able to narrate her story to Vanguard. Her visit to stadium was not in vain after all because; many reporters got her story and promised to assist with publicity to raise public sympathy on how to save the life of her baby. According to her, “I am from Uyo Local Government Area , my name is Miss Peter, the baby’s names is Victoria Asuquo, she is 4years, my daughter was born a normal child, she was growing well until she had boil in march this year on the neck, I took her to St. Luke’s Hospitals at Anwa in Uyo Local Government Area, they gave me drugs to give to her.” “After administering the drugs, the boil did not subside, so i took her to Sanni Abacha’s Hospitals where they gave her drugs, after administering the drugs she had chicken pox, I took her back to the Hospital but then the doctors have gone on strike. I then took her to a private clinic, after, I notice this that her neck side is swollen, it increased so much and they told me that they will carry out a surgical operation on her.” she continued. She narrated further that “they said it must be operated and that I must have to pay N 600,000, i have no money, my husband is dead, i was confused because i know that i cannot raise that kind of money, i do not have properties to sell. Because i do not want my baby to die, I went to Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation, AKBC, to seek assistance from the public, i have not got help. In my desperation to save my baby i also went to the Akwa Ibom Government House to sought the Governor’s help but the mobile Police drove me away. I have not gotten any assistance so far. They said I should go and work for the money but I told them I do not Job.” Miss Peter narrated that the father of her baby, Mr. Asuquo died of a fatal motorcycle accident last year at the main gate of the University of Uyo when a truck ran over him and the motorcycle rider that they both died on the spot. In her lamentation, she also stressed that she was abandoned by the man a month after impregnating her, that she went through so much pains taking care of the pregnancy alone till she delivered her baby and she has borne the
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