Nigerian Govt Favors Parents Of Quintuplets In Abuja

The Head of Civil Service of the Federation,  Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, has given automatic employment and promised a house to Mr. Imudia Uduehi, father of the quintuplets, who cried out for help last week.

Mrs Oyo-Ita also gave cash donation and gift items to the mother of the babies, Mrs Oluwakemi Iduehi, at the National Hospital, Abuja, Saturday evening.

The HoS also cleared the N700,000 owed the hospital by a 22-year-old nursing mother, Blessing Clement, an orphan, who was delivered of a six-month pregnancy by caesarean section. The quintuplets’ parents, Imudia and Oluwakemi, are from Edo and Kwara states, respectively, and are graduates of Computer Science from University of Ilorin, Kwara State.

The couple, whose babies were born on April 12, currently reside in a one bedroom apartment at Lugbe, Airport Road, Abuja.

They got married in December 2015. While the mother, Oluwakemi, works at the Nigerian Population Commission, the husband was yet to get a stable job. According to the HoS, “the mother is okay and the babies are doing well in the Intensive Care Unit and have even started breast-feeding. “It shows that the medical care in our country is not as bad as people make it out to be.

What our medical care need is support rather than condemnations.” On the house promised the Uduehis, Mr. Yemi Adelakun, Permanent Secretary, Common Services Office of the Head of Service, who is also the Chairman of Federal Integrated Staff Housing, FISH, said the FISH committee will meet and take a decision on the size of house to be given to the couple.