UMUAHIA— A disaster was reportedly averted at Umuohu Okpula, Ndume community, Ibeku in Umuahia North Local Government area of Abia State, when a vigilant grandmother prevented a four-day-old baby from being carried away by a hawk.

The grandmother, who gave her name as Adeline Emmanuel, explained that she was lying down, when she heard the loud flapping of bird’s wings.

According to her, she heard noise of a struggling object as the bird was trying to fly through the window, but fell down on the floor of the one-storey building, prompting her to shout at her daughter, mother of the baby, to shut the window.

She said: “I saw the hawk drop down where my four-day-old granddaughter was sleeping and was trying to carry the baby who was probably too heavy for it.

“It was then that I started shouting, asking my daughter to close the windows.

“My shouting and that of my daughter coupled with others, who were by then aware of what was happening, attracted the community youths.”

She said the youths were able to catch the hawk and break its legs and wings.

In her account, the mother of the four-day-old baby girl, Mrs. Joy Emmanuel, said she was outside when her mother-in-law’s shouting made her rush in, only to be confronted with the unusual sight.

According to her, it was only the grace of God that made her to survive the shock, as she had never seen such an incident in all her life.

She explained that they live upstairs in one of the apartments in the building, but “because the weather on that Sunday was unbearably hot, we decided to leave the windows open, which was how the hawk flew into the room and tried to carry my baby.”

For the landlord of the building, Mr. Aaron Ibeji, he has never seen or heard that a bird, no matter its size, tried to carry a baby.

He said the incident nearly shattered the peace of the community.

Ibeji, however, expressed happiness that the youths of the community were able to catch the bird. He said that they were waiting for the elders of the community to decide on what they are going to do with the bird.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/02/hawk-attempts-fly-away-4-day-old-baby-abia/

Cc: Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Dis one no b hawk again ooo... Village Ppl at work

WINCHES!!! Na their work be that

I wouldn't have been surprise if it happened in Edo state.

Criminal animals everywhere. Snake swallow money just last week now hawk don enter kidnapping business and they never still catch the rats wey pursue bubu commot from him office.

So they are waiting for the elders of the community to hold a meeting just to decide on what to do with a bird. I tire for life in Africa

itchie:
Criminal animals everywhere. Snake swallow money just last week now hawk don enter kidnapping business and they never still catch the rats wey pursue bubu commot from him office.

Nigerian army just declared operation rat chase in Benue state. E fit be say na those rats dem dey find

Lalasticlacla leave psp work and cum fast...

Picture of the hawk carrying the baby or ...

This headline should read: Village people elite division commander captured in Abia

I trust my Naija brothers. Dem don already arrest the hawk, break the hawk wings and leg and call the village elders to come look into the matter. We no dey dull for this kind matter

I sue we are funny people..Why nt waiting for the elders before catching and killed the dreaded bird?..

One village witch doctor go use this one open office for there now

They should check the shape of that hawk's head. If it is cone headed which I am sure it will be, then two things are certain
1. It is only after the baby's head not the baby itself
2. That's no hawk!!! That's ogbomosho airlines new Boeing 747 aircraft

grayht:
Lalasticlacla leave psp work and cum fast...

This one no be snake thread nah. Wetin concern lalasticlala the snake master with hawk thread? The hawk should try to carry a snake next time if it want to be noticed by lalasticlala

elgramz:
They should check the shape of that hawk's head. If it is cone headed which I am sure it will be, then two things are certain
1. It is only after the baby's head not the baby itself
2. That's no hawk!!! That's ogbomosho airlines new Boeing 747 aircraft

Hahahaha!!!! Guy u no well o