Kogi: Abandoned newborn baby boy found in gutter

Residents of Karaworo street, in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital were on Wednesday morning shocked after a day-old baby boy was found in a drainage.

According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred at Karaworo, near Kutepa Juma’at Mosque.

The mother is yet to be known.

A 45-year-old woman, Talatu Ibrahim, who found the baby in a gutter beside her window, told DAILY POST 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 neighbourhood 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 abortive.

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 DAILY POST that officials from the Kogi State Ministry of Women Affairs later visited the scene and took the baby for proper care.