From Emmanuel Uzor, Awka
A straying dog has allegedly rescued a day old baby boy suspected to have been abandoned by his mother in a forest in Abagana, the Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State.
A source told our correspondent that the stray dog foraging into the forest for food carried the infant across a busy road and kept it at public glare apparently for passersby to pick the baby up for rehabilitation.
“The dog found the baby in a plastic bag in which he was abandoned in the forest. From what we saw, the baby may have been abandoned in the forest for about two days before the dog discovered him”
“The baby is doing well; he is stable, the source told our correspondent.
A video trending online corroborated our source.
In the video, some women believed to be local midwives were seen cleansing the baby while condemning the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
The women and a male voice doing the video wondered how someone would carry a baby for nine months, only to throw such child away.
While thanking God for saving the baby from being devoured by animals, they implored perpetrators of such act to handover babies in such circumstances to people to take care of instead of throwing them away.
However, all efforts to get the reaction of the Anambra State Police Command could not yield positive results as the phone line of the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Toochukwu Ikenga could not go through at the time of this report.