The authorities of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, has condemned the attempt on Friday by one of its students to kill her newborn baby. The student was reported to have thrown the baby across a fence, but the child hung on a barbed wire where it was rescued and rushed to the hospital.
The public relations officer of the polytechnic, Obini Onuchukwu, in an exclusive interview with Newsmen, said although the institution was yet to make a formal response, the school condemns in its totality the dastardly act.
He said, “It is our responsibility to ensure that we produce students of high morals. As I speak with you, indecent dressing is not allowed in our school. We have a new office for students’ ethics.
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Specifically, we got to hear about this child abuse like everyone. We already detailed our security department to get full details. It is unfortunate. It actually happened in a privately owned hostel, outside the polytechnic’s environment. We are not in control of what they do there, although it worries us because it tarnishes our good reputation.”
Obini further called on parents to mould the characters of their wards in Godliness, saying, “I commend parents who follow up their children even in schools, knowing the kind of friends they keep and maintaining absolute intimacy with them. Bad children constitute nuisance to society at large. So while we do our best, we expect the family institution to do theirs.”
It would be recalled that a student of the institution last Friday gave birth to a baby girl in her boyfriend’s room at Munachi Hostel, Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area, and tried to kill the baby by throwing it over the fence from the first floor of the hostel.
An eyewitness said luck ran out of them when the baby was found hanging on the barbed wire of the fence. It was later rescued by good Samaritans and rushed to Chukwunoso Hospital, opposite the Polytechnic.
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It was gathered that an HND 1 student of Public Administration Department connived with his roommate to allow the former’s girlfriend to be delivered of the baby in their room so they could carry out their evil machination.
A source from Oko Police Station, who did not want to be mentioned, said the culprits are currently at large, but the boyfriend’s roommate had been arrested.
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