Men were on a raid to
dislodge commercial buses causing obstruction on highways in the area when one
of them saw Adesina dumping the child.
A four-month-old baby has
been recovered from the Oshodi under bridge shortly after he was dumped by his
mother, Timileyin Adesina.
The mother was arrested by
operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences
(Enforcement) Unit, who recovered the baby from a sack under the bridge.
The official was said to
have walked down to the spot and found the baby naked in the bag while the
mother had fled.
“The streetlights around
the bridge exposed the woman. The officer spotted from distance that someone
dropped a bag and started running. He quickly moved towards the bag and when he
saw that it was a baby that was packaged inside it, he chased the woman and
arrested her,” a source told our correspondent.
Eighteen-year-old Adesina
was said to have told investigators that her mother sent her and the baby out
as she could not identify the baby’s father.
She said, “I dropped out
from school out of poverty while in JSS 2. I was living with my mother at 26,
Coker Street, Ejigbo, Lagos and my father died nine years ago.
“My mother sent me out
because I gave birth and could not identify the man who impregnated me as
different men slept with me.”
The task force Chairman, SP
Olayinka Egbeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said the mother disclosed that
she took the action as she could no longer take care of the baby.
Egbeyemi in a statement by
the agency’s spokesperson, Taofiq Adebayo, said, “The mother of the baby was
arrested by an official of the agency while running away after she had dumped
the baby boy at under bridge, Oshodi.
“After interrogation, the
woman confessed that she dumped the baby because she could no longer take care
of him as none of her family members was ready to accommodate her with the
baby.”
The Lagos State
Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, after being briefed about the incident,
was said to have directed that both the rescued baby and his mother be
immediately transferred to Social Welfare Department of the Lagos State
Ministry of Youths and Social Development.
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