The father of an eight-month-old baby who allegedly sustained deep cuts on his manhood during circumcision in Bayelsa has called on the state government to help the baby.
Joseph Michael on Friday in Yenagoa said that his son was in severe pain and needed urgent medical assistance to save his life.
Michael, 39, an unemployed father of six, said that the family was distressed by the incident because he could not afford the cost of treating the baby at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa.
Mr. Keke Ziworitin, his step-grandfather mistakenly chopped off half of his eight-month-old step-grandson’s penis during circumcision.
Ziworitin, it was learnt on Thursday, was reportedly carrying out circumcision on the little boy when he erroneously chopped off half of his genitals.
Some community sources said Ziworitin had been in the business of circumcision for many years.
He was said to have sent for the mother of the unnamed boy, asking her to bring him for circumcision.
But the father of the boy, Mr. Joseph Michael, claimed that his wife took the child for circumcision without informing him.
Michael said he only got information that his son’s penis had been cut off during circumcision.
The incident reportedly occurred in the coastal community of Ondewari in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.
