+ Lagos deputy governor rescues woman battered by husband

Exactly 11 days after Saturday Sun published the story entitled, Battered woman turns hospital prisoner, respite came the way of Mrs Mercy Nnadi, the housewife, whose husband killed their only son and inflicted horrible wounds on her with hot pressing iron and screwdriver.
On Tuesday, July 17, 2012, the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Mrs Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire,
through the
state Ministry of Women Affairs, sent a delegation to New Evolution Hospital in Okota, Lagos, to present a cheque of N803,500 to the management of the hospital to offset Mrs Nnadi’s treatment bill and subsequently transferred her to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, for further treatment.
In what looked like an emergency, a Lagos State government Mercedes Benz ambulance bus manoeuvred through the traffic on Ago palace way, which is undergoing a major reconstruction, and stopped in front of the hospital at exactly 1:27pm.
And in a commando style, the occupants of the ambulance alighted and headed for the first floor of the two-storey building, which houses the hospital, to meet with its management. In the flurry of these fast tempo activities, Saturday Sun hastened to speak with the head of the delegation to ascertain what was in the offing, and the government official, who pleaded anonymity, said: “We are from the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs.
We were specifically sent by the Deputy Governor, Mrs Adejoke Adefulure to foot the hospital bill of Mrs Mercy Nnadi and subsequently transfer her to LASUTH for further medical attention. We are here with a cheque to clear her bills.” Among the stream of people at the hospital’s reception, was Mr Nnadi, the father in-law to Mercy.
He was there with one of his daughters. Mr Nnadi is the 65-year-old man, whose son, Henry, accused of sleeping with his wife (Henry’s wife), Mercy, which prompted him (Henry) to wreak the havoc on the night of Easter Sunday this year. Others on the delegation train were a team of medical personnel from the Lagos State government, a representative of Centre for Organisational Development (COD) – a non-governmental organisation (NGO), and members of the media.

 Culled-Saturday Sun