STORY OF A NIGERIAN WOMAN WHOSE CHILD WAS FORCEFULLY ADOPTED IN NORWAY
Thisday narrated the story of Queen Agho, who gave birth to a baby boy in Leirfjord, Norway on April 12, 2013. However within two weeks the Norwegian Child Welfare Authorities decided that the biological mother was mentally incapable of taking care of a child and seized little George.
Following the development, the woman tried to contest the forcible adoption. As her uncle Kelvin Izekor said, the appeal was frustrated adding that the ruling to enable the child’s adoption was explained by the claim that the mother and the baby did not have emotional connection and lacked eye contact.
The relation lamented that interference of the Nigerian Embassy in Stockholm and the National Assembly has yielded no positive results.
He also said that Queen was forced into a psychiatric home by the police, which he believes was made to prove the “mental problems” point.
But when the mother was confirmed mentally healthy by the doctors, she filed the case to the Nigerian embassy in Sweden which urged the Swedish government to stop the inhuman adoption and breach of the fundamental human rights.
The embassy expressed shock over the situation and the seizure of Nigerian children:
“The embassy wishes to register its utmost displeasure with the manner in which, a nursing mother Ms Agho was treated. For such treatment to be meted out to a defenseless woman who had just put to bed with her first child is most inhuman and certainly is in breach of all human rights practices.
“The allegation that there was no connection between mother and child and lack of eye contact within the first two weeks of the baby’s life seems to be in total contradiction of the reality of the mother’s position.
“The embassy therefore wishes to seize this opportunity to draw the attention of the esteemed Royal Ministry to the increasing cases of arbitrary seizure of Nigerian children on very flimsy and unacceptable reasons. The decision to seize a suckling baby of two weeks and four days old from its mother and deprive the baby of the essential nutrients of breast milk and motherly love from its biological mother is indeed inhuman and an infringement of the mother’s most basic fundamental human rights and child’s right to a family life.”
For about a year the woman has been struggling for reuniting with her child, but all in vain.
When contacted, Queen confirmed that George had been taken away “for adoption for a period of 18 years”. She also disclosed that the Norwegian court banned her from testifying on the case.
