An Expectant mum suffers womb rupture in police cell

Mrs Tosin Taiwo, is battling to save her unborn
baby after allegedly suffering a womb rupture
following her collapse in police custody on
Tuesday.
Taiwo claims she bled for 2 days in
police cell before being rushed to Randle
General Hospital in Surulere, where it took
doctors two hours to revive her.
She says she spent 4 days in detention at
Surulere Police Station and was denied bail by
the Investigating Police Officer (IPO). Mrs
Louisa Njoku, who claimed to be acting on
“orders from above”. Taiwo, who is in hospital
at Agbado Ijaiye, say she was arrested last
Saturday at Meiran Market over the N4.2m she
is owing Ajibola Abudu, a businessman.
Taiwo, who is 8-weeks pregnant, says her scan
result shows there is a rupture in her womb.
She told The Nation yesterday that she suffered
breath seizure in detention.
While giving her account of the incident, Taiwo
said: “I was locked up for 4 days without bail. I
bled on Saturday and Sunday, I also told the
policemen that I was not feeling well but
nothing was done. I was taken to Randle
General Hospital but I left there on Tuesday
evening.
I am now at a family hospital in my area where
I have done scan and they said there is a
rupture somewhere in my womb. It must have
been caused by my inability to breathe while
inside the cell. I could not cope there, I suffered
breath seizure. The toilet was dirty and the
stench in the cell was unbearable. It was
choking. There was even no water to bath or
anything. The experience was horrible.”
She said she borrowed money from the
complainant to do business last May but was
duped, adding that he rebuffed all her entreaties
for a payment plan. Abudu, she claimed,
insisted that she should pay the money once.
Her husband, Olusola Taiwo, said the IPO
disobeyed the order of Area C Commander,
Tajudeen Bakare, an Assistant Commissioner of
Police (ACP), to release her.