Newborn Baby Abandoned on Dumpsite in Bayelsa Cries to Death

A new child child boy was on Saturday discovered useless on the dumpsite in entrance of a Major Faculty within the Okaka group, Yenagoa Native Authorities Space of Bayelsa.

In response to residents of the world, the infant will need to have been deserted by the mom within the evening.

The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) reported that residents of the world who went early within the morning to dump refuse on the website noticed the little child wrapped in Ankara clothes, crying profusely.

A resident, who proffered anonymity, mentioned that the primary individual that noticed the kid raised alarm which attracted a crowd from the neighborhood however no assist may come because the harmless youngster was already dying from the chilly and the rain of the earlier evening.

She additionally mentioned that the kid was confirmed useless later as he stopped crying.

Males of the Bayelsa Environmental Sanitation Authority (BESA), who have been monitoring the month-to-month sanitation train in Bayelsa, visited the scene of the incident and condemned such an ungodly act.

Director of Waste Administration, BESA, Mr. Ebitto Alazigha, who led the monitoring crew, enjoined residents to all the time monitor their neighbors on what they took to dump websites.

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

Chairperson of Gender Response Staff (GRT), and founding father of Do-Basis, Dise Ogbise, blamed the ugly growth on poverty and promiscuity amongst younger women.

She urged younger ladies with difficulties in caring for their infants to contact her workplace somewhat than destroy harmless lives.

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

One other resident, Mrs. Ebimoere Matthew, additionally criticized such act.

“It’s unlucky that harmless kids are being wasted in Bayelsa as a result of a lot of the dad and mom of those unlucky kids should not prepared for childbearing however go into relationships to get rapid materials wants.

“This growth is very commendable.

“Kids are blessings to each household, they shouldn’t be killed due to poverty mentality.

“Authorities ought to take motion to forestall future incidence,” she mentioned.

The police spokesman in Bayelsa, SP Asinim Butswat, additionally mentioned the command has already contacted the sanitation authority to evacuate the corpse of the infant.

Butswat famous that an investigation was ongoing.