INVESTIGATION: Culture of death: Twins murder and infanticide in the FCT

Rescued babies relax in their cribs
The house consists of boys and girls hostel with a living room where they regularly gather to say their prayers and commune with one another. However, the Stevens take some of the children to school on a daily basis with motorbikes as they do not have a bus. “What we do is to rescue children from some cultural practise in the villages, those who grow upper tooth first, twins children who lost their mothers, we try to convince the communities to stop killing the children so as to save their lives, that is what we do, we thought to know them through our missionary works and we go into the interior to preach, we also minister to people. “When we save lives first, God will make a way to sustain them and that’s being our story from the first child that we rescued, people come around to nurture them, but it’s not been easy especially when you have babies less than a month old that you have to feed,” said Olusola Stevens, the coordinator of the home. When NAIJ.com visited the home in April 2016, the youngest of the rescued children was a month old, which confirms the continuos killings of twins within these communities is continuing. Accessibility to a  proper healthcare system is about 30 minutes’ drive from the orphanage home. Mr. Stevens also complained of threats to his life and that of his family by some community members who believe some of the rescued children are still causing them troubles.
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