By Tobi Adetunji
The Police operative attached to Ikeja Division of Lagos State has it recover a corpse of an abandoned day old baby. The baby which was recovered on Saturday beside Ayinke Hospital by Airport Road, Ikeja.
In a statement by the Lagos State Public Relations Officer made available to Nigerian Newsdirect.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police CP Hakeem Odumosu revealed that the operation was effected in collaboration with Security Department of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja and the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit that evacuated the corpse.
He said, “The police, having discovered the corpse of the baby, contacted the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit that evacuated the corpse.
“The baby was suspected to have been abandoned by his mother and must have been exposed to risks that caused his death.”
The Police condemned the mischievous act and ordered that more focused surveillance should be intensified on the perpetrator of such dastardly act.
“He condemned the barbaric act of dumping and/or killing babies with impunity as he ordered the State Intelligence Bureau and Surveillance teams in the command to step up their findings and keep watch on those heartless criminals who engage in such heinous crimes with a view to bringing them to book and curb the act in our society.”
Similarly, on Saturday about 9.30pm, along Lekki-Epe Expressway by Jakande. The Anti Crime Patrol team attached to Ilasa Division of the Command, intercepted three men on a motorcycle and arrested two suspected armed robbers while one escaped with their operational motorcycle.
The suspects include Okorocha Covenant, 28 and Adigun Jeremiah, m, 27, both of Badagry Area of LagosState. One Beretta pistol with ammunition was recovered from them.
Odumosu ordered that the suspects be taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba for discreet investigation.
He equally directed the Area Command, Area J, Ajah, to step up Anti Crime Strategies, including raids of black spots and surveillance, to combat crimes and criminality in the entire area.