The management of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp, in Uhogua, near Benin, says an unknown person has dumped a two-day-old baby in its community.
The Coordinator of the camp, Pastor Solomon Folorunsho, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday.
Folorunsho said that the baby was discovered at the camp woods by the entrance into the camp last Friday at about 11a.m.
He said that the baby, who was presently under medical care at the camp health facility was dumped by the person with a note.
We discovered the baby who is about a day or two old at our woods on the entrance into the camp.
The baby was dumped with a note which read ‘please help me take care of him. I cannot take care of him, because I don’t have anything and I don’t want to kill him also, so he is your own please’.
The coordinator however said that the development had been reported to relevant authority as well as security agencies in the state like the Ministry of Women Affairs, the Police and the Department of State Service (DSS).
Meanwhile, Folorunsho has appealed to the parents of the child to be confident enough to come out, adding that child is in need of breast feeding .
