A group of women from the Rido
community in Kaduna State, took to the streets on Wednesday, February 19, 2015
to publicly complain about their husband’s sexual weakness.
The women, who were assembled at the
NDA Junction in the state capital, blamed the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical
Company (KRPC) for their husband’s inability to perform as a result of the
chemical waste and fumes from the company into their environment.
Speaking to newsmen during the
protest, some of the married women complained bitterly that some of the
men in the Mararaba Rido community were impotent due to the toxic waste from the
KRPC.
They revealed that their husbands
suffer weak erection and infertility, while the women suffer miscarriage and
other health complications.
A married woman, Jummai Isaac, 27,
said she has not taken in since she got married in the year 2000.
“I haven’t conceived since I got
married in the last fourteen years, and doctors have, on several occasions,
confirmed to me absence of any known cause of inability to get pregnant.
Initially, doctors thought I had
fibroid in my womb, but after several scans and some medical tests, they
dispelled that notion.”
However, a community leader,
Mohammed Bashar, explained that, “Most of the complaints could be associated
with secondary infertility, because victims have, in the past, given birth to
children before they suddenly stopped.
There was widespread belief that
smoke and poisonous gases emitted from the refinery have reproductive health
effect on people living in the area, but no medical report has confirmed the
allegation due to inability of villagers to seek comprehensive medical tests,
perhaps owing to lack of awareness and poverty.”
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