Police in Lagos has on Sunday arrested an 80-year-old woman,
Kuburat Ayinde, after she was caught with a dead baby boy in the Oshodi under
bridge area of Lagos State. The woman
had allegedly abducted the baby alive from Abeokuta, Ogun State, and strapped
him to her back. The infant, however, died before she arrived in Lagos.
Ayinde wanted to board a bus to Ikorodu from Oshodi at about
2pm on Sunday when a commuter noticed that she was fidgety. The man and other
passers-by were said to have asked her about the whereabouts of the baby’s
mother, but she could not give a convincing reply.
It was learnt that the baby was discovered to be dead after
the octogenarian was forced to remove him from her back.
A witness, Tunde Aruna, told The PUNCH that
Ayinde would have been mobbed but for her old age and the intervention of some
elderly people. "The woman alighted from a bus en route from Abeokuta and she
wanted to board another one to Ikorodu. While she and others were waiting for a
bus, a man noticed that she was nervous. He alerted people around the bus stop
and they confronted her. She was initially reluctant to remove the baby from
her back, but people threatened to beat her up. When it was discovered that the
baby was dead, she was told to strap him to her back again. Some hoodlums
wanted to mob her but some people came to her rescue."
A trader, Tayo Folawiyo, said, "A lady who boarded the same
bus with the woman from Abeokuta told us that she had asked her to remove the
boy from her back while they were on the bus, but she refused.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo
Badmos, said the suspect claimed to be the baby’s grandmother, adding that investigation
had commenced into the matter.
She said, "Around 2.30pm, the woman was brought to the
station with a dead six-month-old baby, strapped to her back. She claimed to be
returning with her dead grandchild from Abeokuta to her base in Ikorodu. She claimed the baby died in transit from Abeokuta en route
to Lagos and that his mother is mentally unstable. The baby has been deposited
in a morgue for autopsy. The case is under investigation."
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