FCT police rescues two abandoned babies in Abuja, moves to identify mothers

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command says its operatives person rescued 2 abandoned babies successful abstracted incidents recorded successful the Kurudu and Gwagwalada areas of the nation’s capital.

The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, of the command, SP Josephine Adeh, made the disclosure successful a connection she issued on Friday.

The PPRO explained that connected Wednesday, September 2, 2026, a nonmigratory of Kurudu, identified arsenic Mr Innocent, reported astatine the Kurudu Police Station that helium heard a baby’s outcry astir Obodo Street, Kurudu.

The witnesser disclosed that, upon inspection, helium discovered a babe cautiously wrapped successful a cloth and abandoned successful a carton box.

Josephine said that, upon receipt of the report, constabulary officers from the Kurudu Division, alongside officers from the Juveniles and Women Care, JWC, Department of the division, were promptly dispatched to the scene, wherever a babe lad was recovered and rescued.

According to her, the babe was promptly taken to a adjacent infirmary for aesculapian appraisal and “is presently successful a unchangeable condition, portion efforts are being intensified to unravel the circumstances surrounding the abandonment.”