This reportedly happened at a hospital in Ifo, Ogun state. A midwife is being accused of exchanging a newborn baby with a dead one, and has refused to own up to her actions even after the Police and community elders got involved. A friend of the new mother cried out via Instagram, narrating what happened.
She wrote;"My family friend delivered her baby by around5pm. The mother in law was asked to go home toget cloths. When she returned with her son the doctor/midwife had left the hospital immediately after her delivery ask informed them by d two nurses on ground.
The nurses wouldn't account for d whereabout of d newly born.The husband raised alarm. Community chairman, elders with the youth went to Ifo police, visited the place of delivery and only found the placenta and only one of d room was locked.
The midwife was spoken with around10pmafter several calls and she admitted d baby was fine and alive.
"The search team left the place around11.30pmafter waiting for d midwife who didn't show up.
The next morning 28th, they went back to that police station, that was when i was contacted. Then the woman was around there.
We all went back to d hospital and in one of the rooms already searched, a dead baby was found which she claimed have been in d building all thru 27th.
She said d baby was dead at birth.
"The locked room was opened and money of different denominations were found she also has d building construction going on behind the clinic.
The elders within her community claimed she came back to d clinic by1amand showed them the dead baby. D DCO Ifo said while he and his team searched d clinic no baby was found.
The dead body have been taken to mortuary for autopsy, the wicked must not go unpunished."
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