Newborn baby abandoned at dump site in Bayelsa cries to death (PHOTOS)

A new child child boy has died shortly after he was discovered deserted at a dump web site in Okaka group in Yenagoa Native Authorities Space of Bayelsa state.

It was gathered that the child wrapped in Ankara material was crying helplessly when it was found on Saturday morning, August 28, by some residents who got here out to dump their refuse.

In line with the residents, the primary person who noticed the kid raised the alarm which attracted a crowd from the neighbourhood, however no assist got here because the baby was already dying from the chilly and the rain of the earlier evening.

They stated the kid was confirmed lifeless later, as he stopped crying.

Spokesman of the State Police Command, SP Asinim Butswat, who confirmed the incident, stated the Divisional Police Officer answerable for the realm visited the scene and contacted the sanitation authority to evacuate the child’s physique.

Males of the Bayelsa State Environmental Sanitation Authority (BESA), visited the scene of the incident and condemned such an act.

The Director of Waste Administration, BESA, Comrade Ebitto Alazigha, who led the monitoring group, enjoined residents to all the time monitor their neighbours on what they take to dump websites.

He stated that the authority would put measures in place to verify such menace sooner or later.

On her half, chairperson of the Bayelsa State Gender Response Crew (GRT) and founder, Do-Basis, Barr. Dise Ogbise,  blamed the ugly improvement on poverty and promiscuity amongst younger ladies, urging younger girls who’ve difficulties in taking care of their infants to contact her workplace slightly than taking harmless lives.

Describing the act as unlawful, she warned that if the perpetrators are caught, they’d be arrested for homicide, prosecuted and jailed.