An unidentified mother has dumped a day-old baby by the road side in
Lagos. The
baby boy was abandoned at a point near Abule Onigbagbo
Bus
Stop, Ikeja. The incident occurred last Thursday,
PUNCH reports.The baby was wrapped with an ankara and left to either be rescued by
passersby or die.
He was lucky as some residents of the area saw him
around 7.30am and surrounded him, cursing the mother that subjected him
to that cruel fate
The
chairman of Onigbongbo Local Council
Development Area, Mr. Babatunde
Oke, was informed about
the presence of an abandoned baby in his
council area. He was said to have reached out to the Supervisory
Councillor for Health, Mr.Gbenga Adedeji, who went to the scene with an
ambulance. Adedeji reportedly took the child away.
Adedeji later told PUNCH that the baby was weak and frail.
He said, ”We took him to the Oregun Primary Health Centre where he was bathed, fed and given medication”.
PUNCH learnt that the baby was later transferred to the Little Saints
Orphanage, Onipanu, Lagos, from where he was moved by the management of
the orphanage to its branch at the Akowonjo area.
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