of a Nigerian couple are in the
custody of British authorities,
because the British Police insist
the children are not biological
children of the couple.
The five minors were said to
have been whisked away by the
men of the Haringey Police to
the Sharon Fair Haringey Social
Service on June 12, 2010, after
they had stormed the
Norwich Park Hospital, where
the woman claimed she had
given birth to the last child, who
is also in custody of the police.
Chiwar and Gloria Musa, who
claim to be parents of the
children, were said to have been
reported to the London Borough
of Haringey by one Alexandra
Constantinou, on the ground
that the mother is a sex worker,
and that the children had
different fathers.
But Chiwar told this reporter
that a DNA test revealed that the
six children namely; Abraham,
Blessing, Sarah, Lerato, Favour
and Queen are children of the
couple, contrary to the report
made to the Police by
Constantinou.
Efforts by LEADERSHIP SUNDAY
to confirm the story from the
Metropolitan Police, however
failed to yield results, as the
officer in charge of enquiries
refused to comment.
Also, several attempts to reach
the Nigerian High Commissioner
to the United Kingdom,
Ambassador Dalhatu Sarki
Tafida, proved abortive.
However, an official of the
Nigerian High Commission, who
sought anonymity, confirmed
that the matter was being
considered by the Commission in
London.
The couple’s petition, dated
August 13, 2011, and addressed
to the British government to
intervene, made available to
LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, read in
part: “With a sorrowful heart, I
wish to bring to your notice the
bizarre, unthinkable, and
worrisome act perpetrated by
the men of the Haringey Police
and Sharon Fair Haringey social
service who invaded Norwich
Park Hospital, unleashed
mayhem and abducted a new
born baby from her
unsuspecting mother. This
atrocity was meted out against
me and my new born baby,
Queen Elizabeth, at Norwich
Park Hospital, at about 3a.m on
June 12, 2010.
“Regretable,painful and inhuman
as it were, the action of the
police did not only cause
pandemonium, discomfort,
unnecessary tension, and
embarrassment to the patients
and staff of the hospital, it
revealed a Haringey that is
Devilish in character and lacking
in human feeling, insouciant in
her approach to assigned duties,
amateurish in style, brutish in
operation, and dastardly in her
acts of executing a hidden
agenda that runs counter to
westernised forms of civility in
police modus operandi. It is
unbelievable that a country like
the U.K, highly respected as an
icon of democracy with
commendable human rights
records could stoop so low to
authorise police to perpetrate
acts that are antithetical and
inimical to the course she goes
all out to protect”.
Mr. Chiwar claimed that, “My
family has done practically
nothing to deserve this painful
and unwarranted suppression.
Five of my children were, without
cogent reason, abducted by
eight policemen from Haringey,
and while the case for their
release is still being battled, nine
policemen, again, in an
unprovoked attack, swooped on
me and my new born baby in
the hospital, seizing the baby,
thereby denying it of its right to
natural love, Bosom feeding and
care by its biological parents.
This is injustice of the highest
order to me, my family in
general and the new born baby
in particular.”
Made available to LEADERSHIP
SUNDAY, was a letter addressed
to a senior official of the
Nigerian High Commission in
London, Mr. M.M.B. Aliyu, by a
British columnist with the Sunday
Telegraph, Christopher Booker
dated 17th August 2011, which
read in part: “Since last June, as
a columnist with the Sunday
Telegraph, I have been following,
very closely, the case of Chiwar
and Gloria Musa, Nigerian
citizens whose six children were
last year taken from them by
social workers of Haringey
council.
“Not only have I followed on a
regular basis what ensued from
their loss of their children, but I
have also been made familiar
with many papers relating to the
case. It has been quite clear to
me that Haringey council was
very seriously misled over the
evidence on which it originally
tore this family apart. On the
basis of hearsay, they were
under the impression that Mrs.
Musa was a ‘sex worker’ and
that the six children were all
from different fathers”.
The letter added that
“Impressions could not have
been more mistaken. Mrs. Musa
is, in fact, a respected Christian
preacher and an author of
several books. Mr. Musa is a
respectable businessman. DNA
tests on the parents and children
confirmed that Mr. Musa was
the father of all of them”.
But, in a turn of events, the
correspondent is said to have
subsequently changed her report
to suit the line of action of the
Haringey police, that the children
did not wish to come home. The
oldest child, according to the
alleged author of the
handwritten letter, had not been
seen by her parents since August
or by her brother and sisters for
several months. There are
considerable grounds for
disquiet as to what may have
happened to her.
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