Residents of Karaworo street, in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, happens to be a place where a day-old baby boy was found in a drainage on Wednesday morning. What a shocking sight to behold an innocent child left all alone in such a dangerous spot.
Following the report of an eyewitness, the incident occurred at Karaworo, near Kutepa Juma’at Mosque.
The child’s mum is still unknown.
A 45-year-old woman, Talatu Ibrahim, who found the baby in a gutter beside her window, told that she heard the cry of a baby.
“When I heard the cry of a baby at the back of my window, I ran outside and saw the newly born baby boy dumped in a gutter beside my window; it was around 5 am this morning.
“As I raised the alarm, some people from the neighborhood came out and took the baby to an elderly woman beside my house,” she narrated.
In an interview with the founder of MOHAB People’s Care Foundation, Muhammed Abubakar, who was at the scene, she noted that all efforts made to trace the mother of the baby proved to be unsuccessful.
According to Abubakar, the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development in Kogi State had been contacted and the baby would be handed over to them for proper care.
Meanwhile, sources from the street disclosed to some personals that officials from the Kogi State Ministry of Women Affairs later visited the scene and took the baby for proper care.
