The Imo State commissioner of police, Aboki Danjuma, has ordered the immediate release of twin boys and their 19-year-old mother detained by a medical doctor since May 4th, 2024, over the fluctuating bill.
Dr Silas Nwamadi was alleged to have frustrated efforts to clear medical bills for cesarean section to deliver twin boys on a 19-year-old.
CP Danjuma yesterday ordered that Dr Silas Nwamadi, the medical director of Goodwill Maternity at Obinze in the Owerri West local government area of the state, be investigated for admitting that he had jokingly told the nursing mother to give him the twins in lieu of the medical bill.
Precious Okere, mother to Chidindu and Chijindu, had told the police that Dr Silas Nwamadi had frustrated every effort to be discharged as he kept increasing the medical bill for the cesarean section conducted on her.
The CP scolded the medical doctor for his refusal to empathise with the kids and their 19-year-old mother, especially when some compassionate Nigerians tried to pay the delivery bill but were suddenly jerked up.
Already, Dr Nwamadi has written his statement to the Scorpion Squad of the Police over the reason he suggested the adoption of the twins in exchange for a medical bill.
Grandmother of the twins, Mrs Ngozi Okere, had petitioned the CP on Wednesday, wherein she alleged that the medical doctor had been persuading her and her daughter to give him the twins in exchange for the delivery bill, an allegation the 19-year-old mother of the twins collaborated before the CP.
Some public-spirited Nigerians, led by activist Journalist Chidiebube Okeoma, had raised funds and made efforts to pay the supposed medical bill to secure the release of the twins and their mother. However, they met resistance from the doctor, who refused and jerked up the fee.
Instead, the nurses had engaged in a physical fight with the young mother, during which injuries resulted, and the grandmother, Okere, lost her phone.
