Detectives attached to the Festac Police Station,
yesterday, rescued a month old baby girl abandoned in an indomie carton at
Festac, Amuwo-Odofin area of Lagos State.
The cries of the baby was said to have alerted some
members of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) around 5:50am yesterday.
The baby wore a light blue coloured overall. She was
wrapped in a white shawl and placed inside the carton. The idea was apparently
to protect her as much as possible from cold and mosquitoes.
But by the time help came however, mosquitoes had already
feasted on every exposed part of her body, especially her face.
The arrival of the baby at the station around 11am,
created quite a sensation. Suspects, complainants and policemen all rained
curses and insults on the unknown mother.
A woman police, Sergeant Pamela Nwabinwe took the
baby under her wings. Without thinking twice, Nwabinwe strapped the baby to her
back and went shopping.
She returned with new clothes, flask, feeding
bottles and baby food. Within minutes, the baby was hungrily feeding on the
food like she was starving.
One of the policewomen said: “That’s how Pamela
behaves with every baby rescued and brought to the station. She goes all out to
mother the baby.”
A policeman said: “Pamela spends her money a lot on
abandoned kids. She likes kids a lot. She’s a real mother.”
Nwabinwe smile in embarrassment as she continued to
minister to the baby. At a point she smiled and said: “Whatever we do, God will
reward us.”
Nwabinwe expression of love came just weeks after
the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, addressed 42
policemen arrested for extortion. He urged them to see police job as a charity
work. He insisted that they shouldn’t ever demand money from complainants and
suspects. According to him, whatever they spent on a case would be rewarded by
God in ways they wouldn’t be able to fathom.
The cries of the baby was first heard by Daniel, an
OPC member, he quickly alerted his boss, Suleiman Badmus.
Badmus is the OPC coordinator of Denca area, Festac.
When he brought the baby to the station, his sister,
Anu Olabisi came with him.
Olabisi said: “The baby was found close to where I
sell herbs at Amuwo-Odofin. One of the OPC members heard the baby cries and
called my brother Badmus. The baby was inside a carton. When I saw her, I was
shocked; I started crying. I’m a woman. I felt whoever abandoned her must be
crazy! Mosquitoes had bitten her face. Why would any woman abandon her baby
after she had carried the pregnancy for nine months?”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer,
Dolapo Badmu confirmed the incident.
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