Operatives of The Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command have arrested one Khadija Ali for abandoning her one-day-old baby along a bush path near Crush Rock, behind an uncompleted Red Bricks Market, Mpape area of the territory.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Josephine Adeh, who confirmed the arrest of Ali in a statement issued on Sunday, 5 January, 2025, said that the arrest by operatives of the Mpape Division followed a distress call by residents that a newborn was abandoned in the area.
According to Adeh, upon the receipt of the distress call, the neonate was promptly rescued and taken to the Mpape Primary Health Care Center, “where medical evaluation confirmed the baby is in stable condition”.
