Mentally Challenged Woman Battles With Ministry Officers Trying To Take Baby Away

A mentally challenged woman has fought with officers of Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare trying to take her baby from her.

The social workers were trying to take the baby from her to a home, and also take the woman to a mentally challenged people’s home for care in Awka, Anambra.

The Commissioner for Women’s Affairs, Mrs. Ify Obinabo narrating the story to journalists, said the woman fought with the officials due to the strong bond between mother and child.

According to her: “The mentally-challenged, beautiful young woman fought tooth and nail to ensure the protection of her baby.

“The expression was witnessed today (Sunday) at the Women Development Centre in Awka when social workers at the ministry of women and social welfare tried to separate the mentally-challenged woman from her new born baby.

“The separation became necessary so that the woman could be taken to a home for the mentally -challenged for care and her daughter to a children’s home.”

She explained further that the social workers has rescued the mother and child in Nnewi and she had previously resisted attempts by some people to snatch the baby away from her, but accepted to follow officials of the ministry with her baby to Awka.

In a video posted by the commissioner, the woman can be seen fighting with the officials and warning them in Igbo that no harm must come to her baby.

She said: “Nothing must happen to my baby. If I look for that baby and fail to find her, I will deal with all of you.”

Obinabo said that they later discovered that the baby was in need of medical attention and they subsequently took her to the hospital.