ANGELA ONWUZOO tells the story of how 36-year-old Lagos homeless caterer, Kehinde Folly and their 18-month-old baby were allegedly abandoned by her husband because he was born with spina bifida. This birth defect affects the spinal cord Life, for 36-year-old Kehinde Folly, has been filled with many troubles after she gave birth to a child on January 23, 2023, with spina bifida, a birth defect in which a developing baby’s spinal cord fails to develop properly. When Kehinde was pregnant with her only child, Habeeb, she was hale and hearty.
Her husband, Jamal Folly, a furniture maker and Lagos State indigene was super excited having waited for two years after their marriage in 2020 to conceive. Love gone sour “I got married to Jamal in 2020 and we were living happily. One year after we got married, he was worried that I had not conceived.
By the grace of God in April 2022, I took in and he was so happy and was taking care of me. “He was always around although he operated his future business in Owerri, the Imo State capital. But his attitude suddenly changed in 2023 when I gave birth to our baby.
He was told by the doctor that our baby was born with spina bifida”, she said. Before Habeeb was born, Kehinde, by the eighth month, started feeling pain in the lower abdomen, and after a medical examination; the doctor in a private hospital at Mushin that she was using for antenatal care, found out that the baby would be a breech birth. She was sent for a scan, which further sho.