Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has revealed that Mary Obikoya popularly known as Miracle baby has graduated from a university.
Mrs Dabiri-Erewa revealed this on Thursday while responding to a Twitter user who requested to know the fate of the girl.
“@abikedabiri where is Mary Obikoya? A girl you gave hope has today disappeared from our collective national conscience. The last we heard, she was being abused by an evidently unstable mother. If the government could not protect her, we hoped you could. Where is she?” the Twitter user, simply identified as Henry, asked.
Dabiri-Erewa responded: “She just graduated. On my scholarship. She will soon proceed for her NYSC.”
Obikoya ignited controversy at birth in 1994 when a 65-year-old woman celebrated her birth as a miracle that happened to her at her old age.
Dabiri-Erewa unravelled the mystery behind Osikoya’s birth while she was a reporter at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).
Three women laid claim to Obikoya, but after investigations and DNA test spanning eight years, the child reunited with her real mother, Kikelomo Obikoya.
The investigation exposed a syndicate which operated by telling mothers that their newborn babies died at birth.
The syndicate would tell the mothers to pay huge sums of money to see the corpses, which they could not afford.
The babies would then be sold to willing buyers.
