Barely three months after the reported birth of a
baby with a mini-Quran in Mushin area of Lagos
State, another oddity has occurred in Sagamu,
Ogun State as a woman was said to have
delivered a baby boy with an Islamic rosary,
otherwise known as Tesbeu.
Investigation by Sunday Sun revealed that the
boy was delivered on Tuesday at Rotoluwa
Maternity Home along Aiyepe Road at about
11.45pm.
Mrs. Gbemisola Hamsat, a 35-year-old mother of
five, was said to have been delivered of the baby
and the rosary.
Expectedly, the strange delivery has turned their
2, Odujoko Street, off Prison Road, residence into
a Mecca of sorts as people thronged the area to
confirm the tale.
The Matron of the Maternity Home, Mrs. Sarah
Olurotimi Oloyede, a traditional birth attendant,
confirmed that she took the delivery of the
somewhat strange child.
Oloyede’s words: “I heard a sound of something
dropping into the bed pan before the placenta
came out.
“It sounded as if it was an iron or something with
weight that dropped on it and when I checked it
closely, I saw a rosary covered with thick blood.”
Mrs Oloyede said that when she took the rosary
by the ‘tail’ to examine it properly, all the clotted
blood on it fell off, leaving the shinning rosary.
A Christian, Oloyede said that she immediately
invited her husband and some Muslim clerics in
the area to come and behold the strange birth by
her Christian patient.
According to her, the shout of “Allahu
Akbar” (God is Great) rented the air as hundreds
of people trooped in to behold what happened.
According to her, the rosary was not around the
neck of the boy when he was delivered by her
mother.
She explained that the birth of the boy was
miraculous and mysterious because a patient
who was on the hospital bed for over four days
and was unable to walk and eat, immediately got
up and walked, demanding for food, which she
ate on hearing the cry of the new baby.
Oloyede said the boy held on to the rosary and
did not allow anyone to remove it from him
despite the fact that he was yet to open his eyes.
The baby’s mother said she is a Christian while
her husband is a Muslim and expressed surprise
at the development.
Father of the baby, 45-year-old Mr. Idris Hamsat,
said the wonderful delivery of his son helped to
confirm his faith in Allah, adding: “Allah is indeed
righteous and good.”
Chief Imam of Remoland, Alhaji Anofi Adeyemi
Allinson, who doubles as the Ogun State
President of League of Imams and Alphas,
likened the wonder birth to the visit of Prophet
Musa to Medina where Allah sent his light to
herald his visit.
Allinson said: “Almighty Allah is sending us
signals and message, which we must all
understand.
“First, it was about a baby born with a miniature
of the Holy Quran and now a baby boy with
Tesbeu.”
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for Sagamu
Area, Mr. Wale Lawal, was said to have led his
officers and men to behold the mystery baby
while prominent indigenes ofRemo town were
said to have also visited the hospital.
In his reaction, the Chief Medical Director of
Ogun State General Hospital, Ijebu Ode, Dr.
Wellington Ogunsanya, said there was no
biological link of the story with the normal
conception and baby delivery by a woman.
According to Ogunsanya: “Such claim could only
be possible with the help of a third party who
might have implanted the rosary into the woman
while she was unaware.”
He said that such claims might be due to some
women who inserted Intra-Uterine Device (IUD)
through their vaginas into the uterus, adding that
this may not necessarily disturb the growth of
the baby.
Dr. Ogunsanya noted that in such cases, it was
possible for the baby, during delivery, to hold on
to or bring such an object out of the woman.
The CMD said that the case of a boy and a rosary
being born by a woman had no correlation
medically.
Culled From Sunday Sun
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