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Women lawyers, security agents evacuate bodies of 2 lifeless newborn babies from dump sites

Uba Group

BY AGNES NWORIE, ABAKALIKI

Members of the International Federation of Women Lawyers in Ebonyi State said that two lifeless bodies of newborn babies, found at two different dump sites in Abakaliki, the state capital, have been evacuated.

The state Chairman of the association, Grace Iheanacho-Chima, expressed her displeasure at the incidents, saying that the decision of the mothers of the dead babies was wrong.

Iheanacho-Chima said, “I have never seen these kind of things in my life. This morning at about 7:30am, I got a call that there was a newborn baby dumped at the Ogbaga Road, Kpirikpiri. Immediately, I entered my car and while driving to the place, I called the police Gender Desk Officer on phone and both of us got there and saw the baby in a carton, but the baby was dead already.

“While we were still there shouting and thinking of what to do, someone came and said that they saw another new born baby dumped along the Abacha Roundabout. We rushed there. I called the Commissioner of Women Affairs, the police and some NGOs. My heart was so heavy. The personnel of the Women Affairs and the police went to the burial ground to bury the babies.”

It was noticed that the lifeless babies found at the dump sites were boys.

Iheanacho-Chima said that the first baby was found at Ogbaga Road Kpiripiri while the second was found at Ogbe Hausa, both within the Abakaliki metropolis.

The Police Gender Desk Officer, Loveth Okorogbuanya, who confirmed the incident, said, “This morning, (19th October 2021), I received a phone call from Mrs Grace Chima, Chairperson of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Ebonyi Chapter, that a baby was dumped.

“At the first scene, people told us that a man riding a motorcycle dropped a sack containing a carton at about 12 midnight. One of the babies was covered with a mackintosh and abandoned inside a carton.

“We believe that the babies were delivered yesterday (Monday). While we were at the first scene, another information got to us that another baby was abandoned elsewhere.

“Officials of the Ministry of Environment, Women Affairs and Social Development, as well as the police, evacuated the bodies and took them to the cemetery for burial,” she added.

Okworogbuanya, who described the incidents as share act of wickedness, stated that investigation was ongoing to unravel facts about the mothers of the dead babies and their accomplices.

She said that those behind the act would be prosecuted when apprehended.

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