Those who eat our children’s dreams
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Thu Jan 28 2021
In a hospital in Katsina last week, Kubra Khalil (not her real name) cradled her newborn and tried breastfeeding it but she could not produce milk for the baby. Kubra herself is a child. She is only 12 years old.
In the hospital, her mother, also nursing a baby Kubra’s sibling is caught between caring for her own three-month-old baby, or her daughter and her newborn grandchild.
The man responsible for 12-year-old Kubra’s situation is 38. He was her teacher and the vice-principal of her school in Kadandani of Rimi Local Government of Katsina State. He is married, not to one or two but to three women. His name is Ibrahim Saleh and that is his real name.