By Chika Otuchikere
A former commissioner of Science and Technology in Niger State, Abubakar Katcha has raised an alarm over the discovery of a radioactive battery hidden inside his wife’s bra.
Katcha narrated that the bra imprinted “made in China” was bought from the Kure Market in Minna and caused his wife to develop symptoms that were feared to be cancer.
The ex-commissioner who made this known to Arewa PUNCH further disclosed that while his wife battled with the treatment of the ailment on her breast for several months, their newborn baby surprisingly has refused to suck from her breast milk.
According to Katcha, “What happened to my wife is something I don’t want to happen to anybody in this country or the world because it is really frightening.
“What happened was that in October 2023, my wife delivered a baby boy, and we were preparing for the baby’s naming ceremony, so I gave her money to buy things for the occasion.
“She went to the Kure market in Minna to purchase the things she wanted to use for the ceremony. When she got there she decided to also buy a brazzier. She didn’t know that the brazzier she bought was implanted with a radioactive substance.
“After the naming ceremony, she started wearing the brazzier, and after some time, she started noticing swelling on her breasts and brownish discharge. It was something very close to the nipple.
The baby could no longer suck the breasts’ milk.
“We went to Nouozo Pharmacy in Minna, and the women there advised her that she should get feeding bottles and press her breast milk into the feeding bottle so she could feed the child. Meanwhile, they gave her medication like antibiotics, very costly antibiotics.
“In the process, we didn’t know what caused the problem. When that thing was treated the child started sucking the breasts’ milk again until last fasting period when we were about to start fasting. I advised my wife that since she was desirous of participating in fasting and the baby is already one-and-half years old, why wouldn’t she want to stop feeding him with breasts’ milk.
“Interestingly, on May 18, 2025 she was washing the brazzier when she noticed something strange hidden inside the brazzier. So, she used her own initiative to remove those strange things in the brazzier. After she removed them, she brought them to me. It was a small battery and another small substance inside. When both are joined together, they produce high radiation, and it is that high radiation that causes cancer,” the ex- Commissioner narrated.
He continued, “It is the two sides of the brazzier that had this battery and some other objects after I opened them further to dissect them. The brazzier was imprinted as ‘Made in China’ along with the brazzier’s size number.
“That is the reason why I am here for the government and the public to know that there are funny things happening in this country.
“The government may have to check some of these imported things coming into this country which they need to put a stop to because to my understanding, I think these people producing these brazziers want to ignite cancer in our women so that they will patronise their medical facilities and medications,” he concluded.
