The wife of the Anambra State Governor, and Founder Caring Family Enhancement Initiative (CAFE), Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano, has enjoined baby mamas to stop throwing their “unwanted” babies away.
Describing such girls as recalcitrant young mothers, she charged them not to discard their new born babies for any reason.
Mrs. Obiano entreated that such mothers should rather ensure that the otherwise ‘unwanted’ babies be kept adequately warm and placed at accessible places where they could be found, recovered and duly catered for.
She made the plea in Awka while reacting to the story about a new born baby recovered on top of barbed wire fence where it was dumped by a young mother in Oko, Anambra State.
Said the Governor wife, “This unpleasant news has almost soured my weekend. I can’t imagine such desperate act at a time when many families are earnestly searching for the fruit of the womb.
“Please let it be known that rather than wasting their lives, many good Nigerians and CAFE are ready to assist and get such babies to appropriate orphanages.”
Mrs. Obiano expressed relief over the news that the recovered baby is now stable and is responding to treatment.
The Governor wife warned against recurrence, counseling that those thinking along that line should desist and do the right thing.
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