A 65-year-old man, Jamiu Jimoh, and his birth attendant daughter, identified as Yetunde Osin have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stealing a baby.
Reports gathered that the two suspects were arrested by policemen from Igbogbo Police Station, in Ikorodu area after perpetrating the wicked act.
A police source who spoke with Vanguard stated that the birth attendant practises her trade and assisted a 28-year-old woman, identified as Stella, to deliver a baby girl.
She reportedly told the woman that the child died and also showed Stella a dead child then took the newborn baby to her father in Ikorodu.
During interrogation, Osin narrated that she found the baby under a bridge near her home at Oyingbo. “On November 9, I was walking along the road in Oyingbo and found a baby on the ground. It was a female child, so I took it. That was the mistake I made.
”I should have gone to report to the police, but because it was a female baby, I liked her. “That was how I took the baby home to Oyingbo. But when I saw how everyone was behaving and gossiping, I had to take the baby to my father in Ikorodu.
”Even when I could not come to Ikorodu from Oyingbo, my father was there to take care of her. Not long after I left his place on Sunday, someone called me on phone at night, saying my father had been arrested.
“I am a hairdresser, but I am also a traditional birth attendant. The baby was not delivered at my place. I was not the one that helped the mother of the child deliver the baby.
”But when the police heard that I was a traditional birth attendant and asked me if I assisted the baby’s mother during delivery, I said yes. But I found the baby under the bridge at Apapa Road in Oyingbo and she has been with me since November.
Jimoh in his own account, confirmed to Lateef Akinborode, Executive Director, Community Women’s Rights Foundation, CWRF, at Igbogbo, Ikorodu, that the baby was found with him. ”Osin is not the baby’s mother. She was not pregnant. I do not know the baby’s mother. My daughter has never brought children to me before.”
Ok. This is really crazy 😜! Like seriously! To begin with, how can you find a baby and took it to a man, an old man for that matter? It’s not correct. How many eyewitnesses were there when she picked the baby under a bridge? She’s culpable. There’s no two way about this. And I’m very sure this is not her first time she’ll do this.