A newborn baby thrown into a pit toilet by an alleged mentally challenged mother in Sabon Titi Quarters in Gidan Kankara, Kano municipal local government area of the state, has been rescued by officials of the Kano State Fire Service on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.
According to reports, the girl was found crying, shouting on top of her voice that her 25-year-old mother with name Hauwa Muhammad, had thrown her sister into the pit.
The State Fire Service Public Relations Officer (PRO), Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, while confirming the incident in a statement, said that the service received a distress call from a member of its staff, Ibrahim Umar-Muhammad, around 10:49 a.m. and immediately dispatched a rescue team to the scene.
“Upon receiving the information, we quickly dispatched our rescue team and a vehicle to the scene at about 10:54 a.m”, he said.
According to Muhammed, the mentally challenged mother, who also had another six-year-old daughter, gave birth to the newborn and dumped the baby in a latrine.
“Fortunately, the six-year-old daughter quickly raised an alarm on her mother’s actions and with good efforts of neighbours and firemen, the baby was rescued alive”.
The Fire Service PRO said the mother was handed over to her grandfather, Abubakar Umar-Usman of Sabon Titi quarters to take the newborn to hospital for medical attention.
He added that the incident might have resulted from the suspicion that the newborn came out of wedlock.
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