Less than a week after a yet-to-be-identified woman dumped her baby at Bako community in Kwali Area Council, Abuja, a newborn has been found abandoned at Pegi, Kuje Area Council in the Nigerian capital.
WUZUPNIGERIA gathered that the newborn was discovered by a resident, one Kazeem Adeyemo, on Friday around 3am at Zone B Pegi Estate when he woke up to observe midnight prayers.
Adeyemo said when he walked into the bathroom to perform ablution, he heard strange noises through the window and when he checked, he discovered that it was a newborn girl.
He said he immediately alerted the police and his neighbours.
Adeyemo further said the police later came and rushed the baby to the Kuje general hospital.
Upon getting to the hospital, he said he was utterly displeased that the social welfare department of the hospital of the council did not act promptly and she eventually died.
“I was even provided a wrapper that was used to cover the baby and I also went with them to the hospital,” he said.
“Actually, the baby was alive because it was even the baby’s cry that attracted my attention before I now quickly reached out to the police who came and took the baby to hospital,” he said.
The spokesperson of the FCT police command, ASP Maryam Yusuf, did not pick calls or reply to a text message sent to her phone.
Last Thursday, a newborn girl was found without the right limb abandoned along Airport road junction, who was suspected to have been stolen by ritualists.
