Mother drags hospital, church to court over misrepresentation of daughter’s info on birth and baptism certificates
One Miss. Khadijat Esther Onanuga has dragged a private hospital, May Hospital, Lagos and St. James Anglican Church, Abeokuta before a Federal High Court, Lagos over the misrepresentation of her daughter’s details in the birth and baptism certificates which was issued by the two organisations separately.
In the writs of summons which a copy was made available to our correspondent by the counsel of the plaintiff, Miss. Onanuga accused May Hospital of issuing a birth certificate with a different dates of birth twice to her daughter; Miss Oyindamola Dorcas Akindele.
She further claimed that after the blunder was discovered in the first certificate, she brought it up with the hospital and the management of the hospital tendered an apology.
Another certificate was promised to be issued with a supposedly corrected date of birth of 15th of October, 2006 instead of the erroneous one which carries 15th of December, 2006 but, to her chagrin, same blunder was made a second time.
She claimed that the error had caused her daughter physical and psychological trauma and unwarranted hardship.
On the part of the Church; St. James Anglican Church, Abeokuta, Miss Onanuga accused the church of misrepresenting the date of baptism of the poor child as 15th of November, 2016 instead of 15th of November, 2021.
Her legal counsel Babajide Morounfolu chides the two organizations and insisted that the errors were unpardonable and that justice must be served in the matter.
He further promised to keep our correspondent appraised of the developments as the unfolds.
