Okikiola, girl, six years old, is in urgent need of financial assistance to undergo a correctional surgery, so she could begin to pass feaces like every other child and human.
Born of Sherifat Bakare, 36, Okikiola was born with sealed anus and has therefore been passing feaces through her vagina, which clearly is unhealthy and dangerous.
According to the distraught mother, they got to know of her condition one week after her birth and have since been making efforts to get a solution.
“I found out she was born without anus after noticing her uneasiness and round stomach. On one occasion, I tried to clean her anus but it was sealed.
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“Okikiola was taken to a health Center in Ilorin, Kwara State, for medical checkup but as parents, we could not meet up with the amount of money requested for the operation, which is N3million.”
Mrs Bakare, a petty trader, said the father, an artisan left them because of the child’s condition, telling her to take the deformed child to where she got her from.
Said the mother: “Okikiola is the last in a family of four, and has since stopped school after her first operation last year at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). She is to undergo two more surgeries which will cost N3,000,000 (Three Million Naira). I am therefore appealing to Nigerians, organisations and governments to come to our aid, so that she can resume normal life like other children her age.”
All donations should be sent to: Union Bank 0170128709 (Abdullahi Alliah Okikiola)