The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, CP Nnaghe Itam, has ordered an immediate investigation into the lifeless body of a newborn baby found in a sack near a refuse dump after Aroma Junction, along Ifite Road in Awka, the Anambra State capital.
Residents of the area had expressed shock in the early hours of Sunday, , when they found the body of the day-old baby wrapped in old clothes which is believed to have been used to carry it to the place.
Passersby in the area suspected that the baby must have been dumped alive apparently by its mother, who did not want it.
According to them, it was heard crying for several hours in the night before the bag was found in the morning.
The situation was said to have generated chaos when a commercial tricycle operator, picking up passengers near the scene was almost lynched for nearly running over the bag, apparently unaware of its content.
It was gathered that it took the intervention of some security operatives in the area before normally returning to the scene, as people watched the development in dismay and disgust.
In a statement on Monday, the state police spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said preliminary investigations revealed that the baby was abandoned by yet unidentified woman suspected to be the mother, adding that the body has been recovered.