According the news reaching naijatrics from Punch Newspaper, The Lagos State Police Command has begun investigation into the death
of two newborn babies, whose corpses were recovered from a canal beside
a filling station in the Ajangbadi area of the state.
Punch Metro learnt that the two boys, suspected to be twins, were left in the canal on Friday.
A crowd of residents, who were drawn to the scene, was reported to
have started taking snapshots of the babies before the arrival of
policemen from the Ilemba Hausa division.
After seeing the corpses, the policemen were said to have called the
attention of the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, which
removed and deposited them in a mortuary.
A police source wondered why the residents did not act immediately
they saw the babies, adding that the twins were dead by the time the
police arrived.
He said, “A resident alerted us to the scene. By the time we got
there, the babies were already dead. There was a crowd of, some of them
were taking snapshots. It is probable that the babies were dropped by
their mother for reasons best known to her.
“We searched all the communities to see if we could find her or
anyone who could volunteer any useful information, but we couldn’t. It
is sad that while many women are looking for children, someone could
take two baby boys and dump them in a canal.”
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo
Badmos, confirmed the incident, adding that investigation was ongoing.
She said, “We got the information around 1pm on Friday and our
operatives attached to the Ilemba Hausa division went there and saw the
corpses of the infants in the canal. We discovered that they were two
corpses of newborn male babies, packed in a polythene bag and abandoned
by the canal by unknown person(s).
“The corpses were removed and deposited at the Badagry General
Hospital morgue for autopsy. But effort is on to track down the
perpetrator(s) of the act.”
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