A premature baby has been found dead in front of a female hostel at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt
The male child who was covered with a cloth was said to have been dropped by an unknown person last Saturday morning.
Some students who spoke to Punch correspondent on the incident said the baby who was between six and seven months old was dumped at the Rumulumeni campus of the university in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state.
One of the students who preferred anonymity said, “I woke up in the morning and started hearing noise everywhere. I rushed out only for me to see people gathering and looking further, I saw a forming baby of about six months inside a hole with blood all over the placenta.
“The person who did that removed the baby on Saturday morning.”
Another source alleged that the mother of the baby could be a student who wanted to get rid of the child.
Some of the students said the harsh economic situation might have led the mother to abandon the baby or that it might be a case of having a child out of wedlock.
One of them said, “If the father of the child denies it, that can make the mother to dump the child. Maybe, it was caused by rejection of the girl by the parents for having a child out of wedlock.”
When contacted, the spokesperson for the university, Dr Ngozi Okiridu, confirmed the situation but said it could not be ascertained if the mother of the child is a student.
Okiridu however said the matter had been reported to the police.
“The baby was buried. We are not sure it is a student who did that (had the baby). But the police are handling the matter because we reported to them.”
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