Newborn Twin Boys Dumped In Lagos Canal, Found Dead

The Lagos State Police Command has begun investigation
into the death of two newborn babies, whose corpses were
recovered from a canal beside a filling station in the
Ajangbadi area of the state.
The two boys, suspected to be twins, were reportedly left in
the canal on Friday August 12th.
Punch reported that a crowd of residents, who were drawn
to the scene, was reported to have started taking snapshots
of the babies before the arrival of policemen from the
Ilemba Hausa division.
After seeing the corpses, the policemen were said to have
called the attention of the State Environmental Health
Monitoring Unit, which removed and deposited them in a
mortuary.
A police source wondered why the residents did not act
immediately they saw the babies, adding that the twins were
dead by the time the police arrived.
He said, “ A resident alerted us to the scene. By the time we got
there, the babies were already dead. There was a crowd of
onlookers, some of them were taking snapshots. It is probable
that the babies were dropped by their mother for reasons best
known to her.
We searched all the communities to see if we could find her or
anyone who could volunteer any useful information, but we
couldn’t. It is sad that while many women are looking for
children, someone could take two baby boys and dump them in
a canal.”
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP
Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident, adding that
investigation was ongoing.
She said, “We got the information around 1pm on Friday and
our operatives attached to the Ilemba Hausa division went there
and saw the corpses of the infants in the canal. We discovered
that they were two corpses of newborn male babies, packed in a
polythene bag and abandoned by the canal by unknown person
(s).
The corpses were removed and deposited at the Badagry
General Hospital morgue for autopsy. But effort is on to track
down the perpetrator(s) of the act.”



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