The Deputy General Manager Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA), Elder Okezie Ezengwa, has called on parents, especially single mothers, not to throw away their new born babies because of the economic situation in the country.

Elder Ezengwa made the call after ASEPA sweepers who were sweeping the busy Aba-Owerri Road picked up an abandoned new born baby boy around Ngwa High School in Osisioma Local Government Area of the state.

The child whose mother’s whereabouts were yet unknown was found by the sweepers in the early hours of Wednesday, shortly after the mother gave birth to him.

The DGM of ASEPA, who commended the efforts of the ASEPA staff in rescuing the innocent child, said: “You cannot know what God will use the boy to do for humanity in future as Moses was used to deliver Israel from bondage in Egypt.”

He described the action of the mother who abandoned her new born baby as inhuman and wicked, stressing that it is an act of callousness for a woman to carry a baby in her womb for nine months, deliver and abandon him.

The DGM with his administrative officers took the abandoned baby to the Abia State Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH) for care, pointing out that after proper examination the baby will be handed over to the Ministry of Women Affairs to take care of him. (The Nation: Text, Excluding Headline)