Afeez HanafiA n abandoned newborn was rescued on Saturday after he was dumped in a soakaway on Oyo Avenue, Olorin community in Adiyan, Ogun State. It was learnt that the baby was passed through a hollow space in-between the iron bars on the soakaway cover. Sunday PUNCH learnt children playing around the soakaway around 3.30pm heard the baby crying and went to inform a woman that a cock had fallen into the pit. They went to tell a mother that a cock was crowing inside the soakaway. If not for the children playing around that soakaway, the baby would have died,” he added.

Source: Punch August 08, 2020 23:03 UTC