Aisha Edwards Maduagwu, the Director,
Sickle Cell Orphanage and Underprivileged Home Agulu, Anaocha LGA, Anambra State, weekend, wrote to the State Commissioner for women, Mrs Ify Obinabo, urging her to withdraw support from her.
Maduagwu, who stated this in a statement, noted that her orphanage home and members were starving and dying without cares by the society simply because they are not adoptable children.
The statement read thus; "Dearest Hon. Ify Obinabo. I am writing you with a heart filled with pain and regret for ever trusting and believing in you after our courtesy visit to your office. Indeed If what you did to the whole Sickle Cell Community pleases God, then it pleases us but if what you have done to the whole Sickle Cell Community especially my orphanage home did not please God, then we shall leave it for God to Judge your actions accordingly.
" Unfortunately We are used to this kind of ill treatment and injustice even from our family members who consider us useless yet pretend that the love and care for us most which I know that you understand me completely without painting words. If we are adoptable you would not have descrminate or stigmatize against us but since it is the will of God that we would go through enormous pain under your watch even after your inauguration in office, then so be it.
"It might interest you to note that I have a relative of yours as an abandoned orphan in my home yet I didn't pressure you for help but you ensured that you denied us the only day 20th of June we could get help from Ndi Anambra simply because we have no money to lobby the ministry for a services they should have ordinarily offer to my orphaned Sickle Cell Children on compassionate ground even after paying you a courtesy visit.
"If you are so proud of your actions then we would accept our fate and keep praying and fighting for justice to be done on our case, No matter how long it takes us to get it. I was thinking that as a Christian mother that you would have a change of heart knowing the pains you inflicted on us but since you are determined to fight and oppress the Sickle Cell Community with your powers, we shall take that to the alter of God to grant us justice.."
She also urged the ministry to suspend engagement with one Mrs Chinwe Nnagbo " Enough of her Sickle Cell Enterprise business with her cohort while we die in silence."