INFANT TWIN MURDERED IN FCT (ABUJA)

“Some men came to our house and asked if my sister’s husband is around and I said that my sister’s husband went out. They now asked if my sister is around and I said she is sleeping. I was trying to ask them what is happening but they did not answer me. They now pushed me away. The next thing that I saw them, they are carrying one of my sister’s twin baby. She gave birth to a boy and girl. They now took the girl away,” Lami Yakubu, an indigene of Kwali area council, Said.

When Dorcas left the city of Kaduna to take care of her sister who had just given birth, she never anticipated the deaths of the newly born twins of her only sister.
“Up till now, we don’t know where the baby is since last year November. The community said they have to stop this. We couldn’t go to the police because that is their culture: the culture that, when you give birth to twins they have to carry one and kill.”
However, she agreed with the tradition that twin babies are sacred: “The covenant that is like you will not make them get angry, anything they want or they order you give them, and that covenant you don’t give to them will bring a lot of problem to you.”
It is the 21st century and the killings of twins is rife within the area councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Cold-blooded murder
Bwari, Kuje, Gwagwalada and Kwali are some of the area councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in which communities are killing twins, albinos and the children of nursing mothers who have died.
An investigation revealed that the practice is still going on. Twins and albinos are seen as bad luck within these communities and they are not allowed to live.
“There is a belief on this land that any woman who give birth to twins is a witch, and also the children are seen as bad luck who can draw diseases, deaths and misfortune to people within the community,” Joel Sunday, an indigene of Kiyi in the Kuje area council, told NAIJ.com.
This practice, which has been around for decades, is accepted by some indigenes of the communities or seen as nothing special. Others believe the practice has stopped.