A group of women from Rido community in Kaduna State have said that their husbands can no longer sleep with them because of alleged erectile dysfunction.
The women, who staged a peaceful protest at the NDA Junction in Kaduna, heaped the blame on the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC), alleging that the chemical waste and fumes from the company, the immediate neighbour of the community, had, over time, accumulated to render them barren and kill the sexual potency in their men folk.
Specifically, some married women and men in Rido told journalists that they suffered from one form of reproductive health problem or the other due to the toxic waste from the KRPC. For the men, it was weak erection and infertility, while for the women, it was cry of frequent abortions and lack of ovulation.
An analyst on the community, Mohammed Bashar, said: “Most of the complaints could be associated with secondary infertility, because victims have, in the past, given birth to children before they suddenly stopped. There was widespread belief that smoke and poisonous gases emitted from the refinery have reproductive health effect on people living in the area, but no medical report has confirmed the allegation due to inability of villagers to seek comprehensive medical tests, perhaps owing to lack of awareness and poverty.”
“Also, villagers claim that infants and children suffer heath effects that sometimes lead to disability or death.
Jummai Isaac, 27, said she got married in year 2000 and suffered from infertility. “I haven’t conceived since I got married in the last fourteen years, and doctors have, on several occasions, confirmed to me absence of any known cause of inability to get pregnant. Initially, doctors thought I had fibroid in my womb, but after scanning and some medical tests, they dispelled that notion.”
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