The women who thronged the NDA Junction in the state capital to press home their point, heaped the blame for their husband’s erectile dysfunction on the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, KRPC.
According to them, chemical waste and fumes from the company emitted into the environment, has contributed to their husband’s loss of sexual potency, while the women often have miscarriages or affected ovaries.
Speaking to journalists during the protest, some married women said most men in the Mararaba Rido community suffer one form of reproductive health problem or the other due to the toxic waste from the KRPC.
A married woman, Jummai Isaac, 27, said she has not been able to conceive since she got married in the year 2000.
“I have not conceived since I got married in the last fourteen years, and doctors have on several occasions, confirmed to me absence of any known cause for infertility.
A community leader, Mohammed Bashar, also pointed out, “Most of the complaints could be associated with secondary infertility, because victims have, in the past, given birth to children before they suddenly stopped.
“There is a widespread belief that smoke and poisonous gases emitted from the refinery have reproductive health effect on people living in the area, but no medical report has confirmed the allegation due to inability of villagers to seek comprehensive medical tests, perhaps owing to lack of awareness and poverty.”
Source: Nigerian Pilot