Police arrest fertility ‘specialist’ after woman’s organ damaged

The police in Ogun State have arrested a self-proclaimed fertility specialist, Williams Adetunji, after his alleged fibroid-treatment product reportedly obstructed a young woman’s reproductive organ. It was gathered that the victim, whose name has been kept under wraps, had used Tumorex, a vaginal-insertion product allegedly sold to her by Adetunji. The product was reportedly marketed […]

The police in Ogun State have arrested a self-proclaimed fertility specialist, Williams Adetunji, after his alleged fibroid-treatment product reportedly obstructed a young woman’s reproductive organ.
It was gathered that the victim, whose name has been kept under wraps, had used Tumorex, a vaginal-insertion product allegedly sold to her by Adetunji.
The product was reportedly marketed during a radio programme in Abeokuta, Ogun State, as a natural expeller of fibroid tissues.
The young woman, who had been battling fibroid for years, reportedly approached the supposed specialist who sold the “drug” to her.
The victim described her decision to try the product as “the biggest mistake of my life.”
“I bought Enervate capsules and Tumorex on September 6. Days after inserting the first dose, my life changed forever… It blocked my vagina,” she said.
“From the first insertion, it became very hard to use the dildo he instructed me to use for coition. It was as if something was blocking the passage.
“When I complained, he told me to insert the second and third doses. I expelled some tissues, but my doctors couldn’t confirm it was fibroid,” she said.
By December, she said she had discovered a “thick, cobweb-like flesh” inside her vagina.
According to her, doctors later informed her that the substance she inserted contained caustic soda, a highly corrosive chemical.
An Abeokuta-based law firm, RRA Solicitors and Advocates, took the matter up by petitioning the state police command, seeking arrest and prosecution of Adetunji for “unlicenced medical practice, sale of harmful pharmaceutical substances, grievous bodily harm, obtaining by false pretence and endangerment of public health.”
Following the petition, Daily Trust gathered that the police arrested the suspect last week.
Confirming the arrest, the command’s spokesperson, Oluseyi Babaseyi, said, “He is in our custody. Investigation has commenced and complainants have been coming to identify him as the person who sold them the unauthorised drugs.
“Once the investigation is completed, he will be charged to court.” A lawyer from RRA Solicitors and Advocates, Hassan Yakubu, who is in charge of the case, described the incident as “a matter of urgent criminal concern” that endangered women across the state.
Also speaking, human rights advocate and broadcaster, Desmond Nwachukwu, who first escalated the matter, told journalists he had attempted to resolve the issue quietly until the suspect allegedly became hostile.
As part of the peaceful resolution, he said when he first contacted the suspect, he agreed to take up the medical bill of the victim’s planned surgical operation, only to renege on the agreement.
Nwachukwu said at least 10 individuals have approached the police, confirming that they used the suspect’s product and that it had caused severe damage to their bodies.