GWER LGC BOSS LAMENTS AS POLICE HANDS OVER ANOTHER RECOVERED CHILD TO HIM.

Police in Aliade, Gwer East local government area of Benue State have handed another male child to the Executive Chairman of the council, Hon Emmanuel Ortserga on Monday, 12/7/2021 at the local government council Secretariat, Aliade.

Making the official handing over of the child to the Chairman, DPO of Aliade divisional headquarters, SP Bathromew Ali represented by ASP Franca Abgenor told the Council Chairman that one Mrs Uchenna Ugwu a cake Baker in Makurdi who supplies cake to her customers in Otukpo and other places in the state last Friday 8/7/2021 joined an on_ coming bus in Otukpo that was conveying passengers from the East to the North. In the bus , the said Uchenna Ugwu sat close to a young lady of between 18 to 20 years who was carrying a barley two Months male Baby and were speaking Igbo language.

On reaching at Austoma village, Aliade, the said Uchenna asked the driver to stop for her to collect monies from her customers. In the process, the young lady also dropped, asked Uchenna to hold the baby boy to enable her find a place to ease herself at about 1:00pm which she held the baby boy and waited for the young lady to come back for her child till 7:30pm to no avail before she took the baby boy to the Aliade police station.

Receiving the child, Chairman of Gwer East local government council, Hon Emmanuel Ortserga represented by his deputy , Hon Austine Nemba commended Mrs Ugwu for taking good care of the child and subsequently handing him over to the police. He also charged her and the police to continue with their humanitarian services in the society.

The council Chairman lamented the high level at which young ladies are gabbling with lives of children whom he described as leaders of tommorow, saying that posterity would one day judge then negatively. He therefore urged parents to monitor their daughters to avoid a repeat of such barbaric act.

He recalled that an abandoned male child was recovered in the area on 30/6/2021 barely a week to the present case.

By Christopher Avi