… Pregnant woman disappears from home to avoid exercise
Following the insistence of an Islamic cleric that his pregnant wife undergoes circumcision after childbirth, the embattled wife has gone into hiding. The 29 years old woman was said to be hiding at yet to be identified location in a suburb of Lagos, Lagos State. Investigation indicated that the lady, simply identified as Rukayat Tairu, was at the time of the incident had disappeared from her matrimonial home for the fear of being forced to undergo the painful circumcision process. Exercises for pregnant women Findings also show that she had earlier had a child for her first husband who happened to be a Christian which the parents were opposed to. But on getting to the new husband, he insisted that she must be circumcised according to the Islamic injunction. According to close family sources, the lady will have to go through the circumcision after the delivery of her child. Born into Islamic religion family, Rukayat, it was learnt had opted to embrace Christian rel