A midwife has been arrested for allegedly stealing a newborn baby and replacing with a dead one in Ifo, Ogun State.
The story was shared by Instagrammer, Adeyemi Abolore. According to her, the drama started when the unnamed midwife who runs her clinic in Ifo, Ogun State, supervised the delivery of a local and quickly sent the patient’s relative home to get new clothes for the new mother. Just as the relative left, the midwife disappeared.
The newborn could not be found when the villagers stormed the facility to search for it, and the midwife could not be reached via telephone until 5 hours later . She eventually turned up the following day with a dead baby which she claimed was the newborn.
From the clip shared on Instagram, 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.
This development has sparked major outrage on social media.
“People are wicked. …..do they even stop to think of the trauma the mother will go tru or the journey she went tru 9 months + labour,” said an Instagrammer @hamdalah1.
The state’s police had yet to make official statement as at press time.
Watch the clip: