by Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna
Barely more than one week, tongues are still wagging, following the burial of a dead body of a married woman with 8 months’ pregnancy, an omen variously described by many as an abomination and anti-socio burial rites.
The incident, which reportedly occurred in Maraban Rido, in Chikun LGA of Kaduna community, has continued to spread from one community to another, with many people, mostly women condemning the development.
Narrating the ugly trend in a throwaway conversation group, one Victoria Adanma, in a grieved mode, outrightly discarded those in support, saying even 4 months’ pregnancy ought to have been operated, and child removed before any burial in every known culture and society, lamenting why this was different.
According to the women, the husband of the victim woman that died at St. Gerard’s Catholic Hospital, Kaduna, rejected doctors’ advice to even carryout surgery operation on the woman and remove the child even before and after her death, setting the tongues wagging, and creating rooms for suspicion against the husband.
Victoria Adanma, according to reliable information, added that the dead body of the woman was forced into the coffin as a result of the size of the pregnancy, against all advice.
An eyewitness lamented thus: “While they termed it as ‘unusual’ and ‘abnormal,’ it was believed that it’s an overload for the woman and deprivation of the right of the child to be buried separately, even though it may amount to nothing to some people.
Efforts to get the family were futile, as the women refused mentioning them, but vehemently condemned the action.