The House of Representative has launched an investigation into the case of a Nigerian baby who was forcefully taken from his mother and adopted by the Norwegian government.

The Norwegian government reportedly took the 2-week old baby from his mother with claims that the mother and child lack bond and lacks eye contact. This has left the mother, Ms. Queen Agho, psychologically and emotionally depressed.

The Edo State born mother, who is based in Norway, had the baby in April in 2013. When contacted on the telephone, Queen said that the Norwegian Child Welfare Authorities, had already taken away the baby “for adoption for a period of 18 years.”

When the case was brought to the floor by the Minority Whip in the House, Mr. Samson Osagie, following a petition by Agho, the Chairperson, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, Ms. Abike Dabiri, said they are aware of the issue and already trying to resolve it.

The spokesperson for the family, Mr. Kelvin Izekor, said efforts by Agho to contest the forceful adoption was frustrated by the Norwegian authorities.

He said the Norwegian Child Welfare Authorities claimed that Agho was forcefully taken to a psychiatric home by the police and child welfare for the purpose of generating official evidence to substantiate their claims. But Izekor faulted the claim saying the doctor had confirmed her to be mentally fit and healthy to care for her baby.

The letter reads, “The embassy wishes to register its utmost displeasure with the manner in which, a nursing mother, Ms. Agho, was treated. For such treatment to be meted out to a defenceless woman who had just given birth to her first child is most inhumane and certainly is in breach of all human rights practices.

“The allegation that there was no connection between mother and child and lack of eye contact within the first two weeks of the baby’s life seems to be in total contradiction of the reality of the mother’s position.

“The embassy therefore wishes to once more seize this opportunity to draw the attention of the esteemed Royal Ministry to the increasing cases of arbitrary seizure of Nigerian children on very flimsy and unacceptable reasons.

“The decision to seize a suckling baby of two weeks and four days from its mother and deprive the baby of the essential nutrients of breast milk and motherly love from his biological mother is indeed inhuman and an infringement of the mother’s most basic fundamental human rights and child’s right to a family life.”

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