People in Ondo state swarm round a man identified as Muyiwa Ayorinde, at the Oke Aro area of Akure, the State capital, for allegedly dumping his own baby inside a canal in the area.

It was gathered that the 32-year-old man who was caught by the residents of the area who later handed him over to the police was reported to have kept the baby inside a black bag and threw it inside the canal.

According to a source, the cry of the baby inside the bag was what attracted the people who were then monitoring the suspect’s movement. He said, “I saw the young man looking strange as he alighted from an okada (motorcycle) and pulled out a black bag and dropped it inside the canal and we heard a baby crying aloud. That was when we knew what he wanted to do. People usually come from different places to dump things in this canal and we have to make it a point of duty to stop them.

“The man is a wicked man to have come to the place to dump his own baby. Thank God for the swift intervention of the security men who came around; the people there would have killed him.”

The source said that the baby was admitted to a nearby hospital, where a doctor confirmed that it had died.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Tee-Leo Ikoro, is yet to react to the incident as he said he was yet to be briefed about the incident.