
SINCE he was born March5, 2000, 13-year-old Uchenna Ekezie has lived with a genital deformity. He was born with what is described in medical parlance as maldeveloped external genitalia. In lay terms, he has no visible external male reproductive organs whatsoever. All he has to show is a rudimentary stump that is less than an inch long. No thanks to this congenital abnormality, Uchenna can not urinate normally,.
Worse still, his hopes of biologically fathering children in the future currently hang in the balance. Although Uchenna, who hails from the Ejike Ezekie family of Umuariam Obowo LGA of ImoState, has undergone series of major surgeries at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, he requires a total of N4.5 million to undergo two more outstanding surgeries to complete his restoration. The first surgery is for correction of the continuous dripping of urine, while the second surgery is for elongation of the rudimentary stump.