While some ladies are praying for the fruit of the womb, some are discarding through toilets and maltreating their children, not minding the pathetic cry for survival from the innocent child, due to reasons best known to them.
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In the early hours of the day in Fabiyi Street, Okota- isolo, Lagos, Mrs Margret Chukwuma, a trader woke up to prepare her children for school. Surprisingly, when she went to fetch water outside the house, she saw a beautiful baby wrapped in a polythene bag and kept by the gutter on the street. Moved by compassion at the cry of the child, she took him in her arms.
Mama Blessing was later surrounded by sympathizers and onlookers who were shocked and angry as they asked one another: what mother on earth could have exposed the innocent baby to die? Was she insane? What is the world turning into? Advised by good-hearted neighbours, she reported the case at the police station.
Despite the outcry and efforts of government at all levels to curb the menace of abandoning children, child abandonment which seems to become a daily occurrence has been on the increase. Dropping points include garbage dump sites, cemeteries, uncompleted buildings, mosques, churches and at the entrance of roads near orphanages.
Experts have said that one of the reasons for the increase in this phenomenon is obviously the protracted economic crisis in the country and the attendant widespread poverty. “The pervasive level of unemployment in particular has negative implications for positive family values, exacerbating the incidence of single mothers, unwanted pregnancies, high divorce rates, teenage delinquency, prostitution as well as alcohol and drug abuse that result, among other causes, in abandoned babies,”.
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