July 26, (THEWILL) – The Bayelsa State Government, on Tuesday, reunited a two-month-old baby, Success, who was rescued from a suspected kidnapper at Azikoro Community, to the legitimate mother, Joy Lucky, after spending one month at the Gloryland Orphanage, Opolo.
A Magistrate Court sitting in Yenagoa had, early this month, ordered the remand of a 30-year-old man, Kingsley Solomon, at the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Okaka, for alleged child theft.
Solomon, who was arraigned by the Bayelsa State Police Command before Magistrate Sarah B. I. Avoh on two counts of assault and child stealing, had claimed that he was the original father of the child when he forcefully collected the child from the mother and made away to an unknown destination.
But respite came to the way of the child and the mother when the Founder of Eunice Nnachi Women Advocacy Foundation (ENWAF) met the suspect with a child and invited the Azikoro Police division to investigate the circumstances surrounding the handling of a two-month-old baby by a man, who is not capable of taking care of the child.
Bayelsa State Commissioner for Women, Children Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Faith Opene, who returned the child to the mother, commended the members of ENWAF for partnering with the Ministry in catering for the welfare of women and children in the State.
She advised young girls in the State to embrace knowledge through education or skills acquisition in order to financially empower themselves before they start to produce children.
She urged all mothers to take proper care of their children in order to have a better society.
“Young girls should take their education seriously, learn a trade or get skills that would make their lives meaningful,” she stated.
The founder of ENWAF, Lady Eunice Nnachi, expressed happiness over the safe return of the child to the mother, urging parents to be responsible in training their children in order to have a progressive society.
