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.
