A baby girl, dressed and abandoned by her mother in a biscuit carton near Eco Bank, along Ikot Ekpene Road, Uyo, died after hours of battling for survival.

The baby, who was said to have been abandoned by her mother at about 11:30pm on Friday, died around 11:58am on Saturday after many hours of crying for help.

A resident of the area, Mr. Okon Isaac, told a Punch correspondent that the baby became pale after a long period of crying for her mum’s comfort before passing out.

Isaac said he wanted to check if Total Filling Station along Ikot Ekpene Road, Uyo had begun to sell fuel when he heard a baby cry near the refuse bin, dressed neatly and dumped in the biscuit carton.

According to him, he was perplexed and had to suspend buying fuel and kept watch over the baby since 5:47am thinking that the mother might change her mind and come back for the baby.

He stated that the baby’s cry from the carton drew the attention of a large number of people.

Isaac added that people were scared to touch the baby to avoid being accused by the police of trying to steal or kidnap the baby.

“I have been here since 5:47am. I wanted to buy fuel from Total, which only sells the product when available between the hours of 4 and 6:20am. After this time, they stop selling pretending not to have the product.

“As I was passing, I heard the cry of the baby. I began to wonder where the baby was crying from. But when I got near the refuse bin, just off the road, I saw a baby girl neatly dressed and dumped in a biscuit carton.

“I could not go to Total in search of fuel again. I stayed behind to observe if the mother of the baby might change her mind and come back for the baby. And before long, people started to troop in as they heard the cry of the baby.

“But as we live in a period of child theft and selling of children for money, people were scared to touch the baby. They all stood helpless, should anyone risk lifting the baby, and the police happen to be around, the individual can be accused of child theft, or whatever,” he said.

The Punch correspondent called the police emergency number to inform them of the abandoned baby, but the police said they were aware of the situation and had contacted the Ministry of Environment for necessary action.

It was observed that till the baby died, neither the police nor officials of the Ministry of Environment were present at the scene.


http://www.lailasblog.com/2016/01/omigosh-nigerian-watched-abandoned-baby.html

Oh c'est domage

its a pity....why im mama leave am run


women sha

I don't blame them. Our policemen are not smart at all. They can turn your good deeds into criminal charges

chei, wickedness

This life sha..

I dont blame d people cos our police got no brain bt wat wil d mother tell God on dat day wen she will b asked whr is d child i gave u?

K

I dont blame them






NPF sucks

SAD. But if a crowd of like 12 people went to the police together with the baby, I don't think things would have turned out ugly as the people thought. Now the baby is dead, and they could have saved her.

Sigh

Sardonic

The on lookers that watched her cry to death are more wicked and heartless than the baby's mother. May God punish them all.

Really sad.

Now, the mother who was stupid enough to have pre marital sex, without protection, decided to carry a baby to term, after which she dumped the baby.

Is there any sense in that?

The Police under the leadership of Solomon Arase is really trying to clean the general perception of the Nigerian Police, as much as his effort is appreciated, it doesn't begin with making a Celebrity a police Youth Ambassador.

It begins with sanitizing the general police force.

Nigerians have been made to look heartless because of the fear of Police, imagine a poor baby that could be a leader tomorrow being let to waste away because of the perception of the Police.

Na wa.

Nonsense. Who cares if I get arrested. Such a cute baby.

May her innocent soul rest in peace. Amen.

Their response is condemnable, but at the end of the day, their refusal to help is a symptom of a disease. The disease here is the victimization of helpers by the Police. You hear of cases where those who help accident victims, etc are detained and treated as criminals.

The society will keep presenting those symptoms, till we cleanse the system and take care of the disease ravaging the Nigerian Police.

May her soul rest in perfect peace.

God have mercy on us.

I guess there are no real "mothers" or elderly people or community development association members around there, how would they watch a baby die because of that flimsy excuse, at worse take the baby to police station yourself.

Nigeria police will change the tori for you if you try to be a Samaritan

Police sabi turn ones kindness against the person. Nigerians don wisen up.

So if someone had taken her to the hospital, the police will arrest the person?

Among the crowd watching her die, were Christians, Muslims, traditional believers and atheist. None of them had a soul.
On Sundays they Will whine and dance
On Fridays, they will drop their neck.
And the atheist will argue about the inexistence of God till nightfall
Same with traditionalists.
Yet all of them have forgotten the ties that bind- humanity.

All present are pathetic excuses passing as human beings.

The country is a big mess. We need attitudinal change.

So sad.
People stop having babies you know you can't care for!

Ds is bad.... Innocent baby

Nigerian Police

kay29000:
SAD. But if a crowd of like 12 people went to the police together with the baby, I don't think things would have turned out ugly as the people thought. Now the baby is dead, and they could have saved her.

It seems you just came back from America. a crowd of 12=12 cells=N20000 x 12
There's hunger and recession in the land , some folks cant feed properly not to talk of bail money for the police.
anyways, In as much as their will be consequences for helping that child, someone was supposed to go against the odds.

D heart of man is evi

Na all dis small small gals wey deir life don spoil, get belle for tout con drop the baby for dustbin. God go punish dem. Their reward is in hell.

What a pity.
If I come across baby dump I will make sure I carry him/her.

Isaac added that people were scared to touch the baby to avoid being accused by the police of trying to steal or kidnap the baby.

The stupiidity of this excuse is appalling.
So the police would have accused ALL of you for trying to kidnap a baby obviously in a carton far away from home? Interesting. So why weren't the police called?

See, wickedness is not only when someone accuses another falsely. Wickedness is seeing the helpless and doing nothing.
Nansense!

The excuse is somehow ....at least there are witnesses to aid their plea if it gets to wrong accusation.


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