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| The Baby |
A day-old
male child has been dumped by an unidentified mother on the road side in Lagos.
The baby was abandoned on Thursday at a point near Abule
Onigbagbo Bus Stop, Ikeja.
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 said 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.”
According to source, 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.
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