Mother Of Quadruplets Complains

By Ahmed Suleiman

Mrs Funke Adesanya, mother of the quadruplets born three weeks ago at Emure General Hospital, Emure Ekiti, said that she was broke and unable to feed well.
Newsday reports that the four baby girls and their mother are currently at the Intensive Care Unit of the State Specialist Hospital, Ado-Ekiti.
Adesanya, 22, told Newsday at the hospital that she had not been feeding well for the past two weeks, because she had no money.
"My greatest problem now is that I am starving. In fact, l have not been feeding properly for the past two weeks, since there is no money to take care of myself and the babies.
"My husband and l need jobs; now l am facing starvation.
I have not been feeding well and that is why l am not all right.
"Please let the government and the public come to assist me by providing food, which is my immediate need for now," she said.
Adesanya told Newsday that so far, she had received the sum of N100,000.00, and other materials from the wife of the state governor, Mrs Kemi Oni.
According to her, she also got N10,000.00 from Oba Emmanuel Adebayo, the Elemure of Emure but she was yet to have access to the monetary gifts.
She said that although she was receiving adequate medical care at the hospital, the greatest challenge was the cost of drugs and feeding.
Adesanya said the father of the children, Ariyo, 24, a school certificate holder, was a commercial motorcycle (okada) rider.
According to her, the man had since doubled his efforts in the 'okada' business in order to cope with the present challenges facing the family.
The Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr Patrick Adegun told Newsday that the babies were receiving adequate medical care.
"They are responding positively to treatment since they were brought here three weeks ago,'' Adegun said.
According to him, the hospital management has been giving them the best medical care to ensure that they were in a stable condition.
The CMD, however, said the hospital could not discharge them now but arrangements had been made to continue giving them adequate medical care.

Signing Treaties Without Honouring Them Is Useless, Says Sebanjo

The National Human Rights Commission in Abuja said that signing treaties and
conventions was useless if they were not honoured.
Mr Olukayode Sebanjo, a Director in the National Human Right Commission, made the remark in an interview with Newsday.
Sebanjo, who spoke to Newsday on after of the conference on ``The United Nations Human Rights Council and the Advancement of Human Rights in Nigeria'' said ``obligation is what you cannot but honour''
He said that any country that signed an international treaty was obligated to honour it because it freely signed the document.
``As a responsible person you don't need anybody to persuade or compel you before you honour the obligations you freely entered into,'' he said.
Sebanjo said that there were about 15 international human rights obligations Nigeria had signed but had yet to domesticate.
`` Nigeria thrives in going outside to make impressions but doing nothing locally to domesticate such obligations,'' he said.
Also speaking to Newsday , Mr Sam Amadi, Director, Centre for Public Policy and Research, (CPPR), said that it was of no use signing international documents that could not be implemented.
``When you enter into an obligation, you create constituencies and groups to serve as vanguards to create awareness and educate people on the need for it,'' he said.
``You should not just stop at signing.
Many at times people just sign these documents without properly understanding them.
``There is need for education, after signing, to persuade both the policy makers and even the populace on the importance of such treaties,'' Amadi said.
He said Human Rights Committees should not think that government was there to implement treaties, adding that they should create awareness on such treaties.
``Even when a treaty is domesticated there is still need to educate the people about it so that they can participate in its implementation,'' he added.