An unidentified mother has dumped a day-old baby
by the road side in Lagos.
The baby, a male child, was abandoned at a point
near Abule Onigbagbo Bus Stop, Ikeja.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident
occurred on Thursday.
The baby was wrapped with an ankara and left to
either be rescued by passersby or die.
He was, however, 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 reported took the child away.
Adedeji later told PUNCH Metro 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 Metro 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.
Oke said he paid a visit to the oprhanage on
Wednesday and made cash donation, clothing and other materials for the welfare
of the abandoned baby and other inmates.
-Punch
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