A midwife was arrested in Ogun state after she allegedly swapped a newborn baby with a dead one which she presented to the new mother. According to Naija News the incident which happened in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun state was disclosed by an Instagram user, Adeyemi Abolore, who shared the video online.
Narrating the incident on Instagram Abolore wrote:
“My family friend delivered her baby by around 5 pm on May 27, 2017, and the mother-in-law was asked to go home to get clothes.
“When she returned with her son, they were informed by the nurses on the ground that the doctor and midwife had left the hospital immediately after her delivery.
“The nurses wouldn’t account for the whereabouts of the newborn baby. The husband raised an alarm and informed the community chairman and elders with the youth and they went to the Ifo Police Division to report the matter.
“They visited the place of delivery and only found the placenta and that one of the rooms was locked. The midwife was spoken with around 10 pm after several calls and she admitted the baby was fine and alive.
“The search team left the place around 11.30 pm after waiting for the midwife who didn’t show up. The next morning, on May 28, they went back to the police station and that was when I was contacted. “
Then the woman was around there. We all went back to the hospital and in one of the rooms already searched a dead baby was found which she claimed have been in the building all through the 27th.
“She said the baby was dead at birth. The locked room was opened and money of different denominations was found.
“She is also the owner of a building construction going on behind the clinic. The elders within her community claimed she came back to the clinic by 1 am and showed them the dead baby.
From the clip, the midwife continues to insist that the dead baby is the child that was birthed by the patient, while her interrogators insist that the dead baby was taken from a mortuary. The investigation into the incident is still ongoing.