Abandoned Kids: How A Councillor’s Intervention Saved Their Lives

Okonta Emeka Okelum, Asaba

One of the major responsibilities of parenthood include providing love, care and daily needs of their kids.

Around the Bonsacc and Oduke area of Asaba, this child deserving responsibility eluded four kids.

These kids, Goodluck 8 years old, Precious & favour 6 years old (twins) and Ebube 2 years, according to a neighbour’s eye witness account to our reporter were abandoned by their parents.

The kids and their parents were before their abandonment, resident at No

The kind neighbour who shared his views with Asaba Post News Wire, recalled that the kids’ mother had earlier two months ago abandoned the kids to the cares of their father, Mr Ositadinma Ugandu.

Our source tpld our reporter how for days these kids were seen in the neighbourhood walking aimlessly, with zero or very little care, thereby resorting to street begging for survival.

As this ugly trend continued for days, some members of the neighbourhood reached out to the councillor representing the area at the Oshimili South Legislature, Hon Tony Okocha.

According to our source, the law maker for some days attended to the up-keep and daily feeding of these kids.

But in order to make sure his kindness was not mis-represented, Hon OKocha sought the legal intervention of the Nigerian Police Force.

We were reliably informed that the councillor reported the incident at the B Division Office of the Nigeria Police Force, where we were told the kids were kept for some time.

The kid’s father upon being hinted that his kids were at police custody, he quickly appeared and while at the police station claimed he never abandoned his kids, but only went to Onitsha, where he does his wheel barrow pushing jobs, but maintained that his wife had long abandoned him and the kids.

We were later informed that the police after further interrogation and proper investigations handed over the four kids to Mr Ositadinma Ugandu.   

Sharing their thoughts with us, some of the neighbours interviewed commended the councillor’s swift response and benevolent intervention.

All attempts by our reporter to meet with the DPO, B Division, proved abortive, as the telephone calls made yielded no substantial response from him, because he referred us to the Police Public Relation Officer, at the Delta State Police Headquarters.