Photo: Abandoned baby wrapped in a Polythene bag found in Kaduna

Women and many passers-by were shocked yesterday when they thronged the site of a new born Baby Boy abandoned in the city.

Wrapped in a Polythene bag, the innocent handsome looking baby, according to residents, was abandoned along Race Course Road before GOC Round About by the fence of Murtala Square, Kaduna b an unknown mother.

The abandoned baby was found by some boys among which are some group of Almajiri boys, who gathered around the abandoned child and drew the attention of passerby around 11:00am,Daily TimesReports.


It took the courage of a female journalists working with Core Television who went down to the pit and picked up the baby boy from where he was abandoned and another women volunteer a veil with which the boy was wrapped.

Many people at the scene rain curses on the mother of baby who abandoned the child. According to eyewitness account, a woman who plead anonymity said "just look at what my sister is looking for after years of marriage and somebody just abandoned here, I am not sure it is going to well with the wicked soul that did this."

According malam Ibrahim Abubakar one of the people at the scene, he described as very wicked the attitude of the women who might have done this evil. "What kind of wickedness and foolishness is this, after keeping this baby for nine months, is this what the mother of this child though is good for this baby?," he asked.

Eyewitness said a team of Policemen were called to the scene that later went away with the baby boy. As at the time of filing this reports efforts to reach the police to verify the state of the matter proof abortive.