Another mother has abandoned her newborn baby in a dustbin in Calabar, Cross River State.
The unidentified mother, our reporter gathered abandoned the baby in a waste bin by Ekoson Bustop, 8 Miles, Calabar Municipality.
According to sources, the newborn, who was already dead, was discovered by a good Samaritan on Sunday morning.
According to background voices in a viral video shared with Reports has it that the baby died of a cold before being found.
The newborn must have been left by the mother on Saturday night.
Our cross river correspondent reports that this is the second time in less than a week that such an incident was recorded in Calabar.
The other was at Ekpo Abasi Junction by UNICROSS (CRUTECH) gate, where a mother dumped her newborn inside the big gutter (drainage) flowing with water. “This is a wake-up call for all of us. “We need to come together as a community to support each other and ensure that no mother feels like they have no option but to abandon their child.”
last year January same story was heard in ikot ansa and ekorinim, child abandonment has become a regular activity in Calabar that women get pregnant go through pregnancy, have the child and can’t care for the child that they have to watch the child die, such a painful event but it’s true that most women are angry having a child for a man who rejects the child, leaving them to care for the child alone in depression and anger the abandon Thea children in bins and gutters since they can’t sale it.
Mr Akaninyene Okon a business man in the area suspects a young lady who was pregnant and wasn’t cared for, according to Akan he says the young lady always ask for support from anyone who comes her way so to eat and afford basic needs but at a time he hasn’t seen the lady around, he feels the baby belongs to her considering the fact that she has not been seen in the area which she was indoors and the baby was found close to the lady’s resident in ekpo Abasi, Calabar of Cross River State.
