Residents find corpse of one year old baby in uncompleted building

Residents of Itele Road, Ewu Ajasa community in Lafenwa, Ogun State, were thrown into a state of confusion after the corpse of a one-year-old child was found in an uncompleted building.

Some labourers were reportedly clearing weeds around the building when the found the body, and then fled the scene, which attracted the attention of community leaders to the building.

According to Punch, the female child was dumped in the uncompleted building in the early hours of Friday.

A woman, who claimed to be overseeing the construction of the building, said,

"I am not the owner of the site, it belongs to a woman who is a member of my church.
"Since she doesn’t live around, she asked me to help her to supervise the building.
"It was on Friday that I was called that they found a dead girl on the site. I was as surprised and horrified as everyone because nobody knows their intention.
"I only went there and left after the community leaders said they would bring in the police." Continue...

Another resident said the dead baby had signs of infections all over her body.

While the secretary of the Community Development Association, Pastor Aseyi Clement, said the child was dumped by someone living far from the area.

"We first called the Baale, Chief Segun Ajasa, before we reported the matter to the police. We took a picture of the corpse and with the permission of the police, we buried the child. We did that to avert an outbreak of any disease.
"Our investigations showed that the child was brought from a far place and we had to report back to the police so they could also make their findings."

However, a suspect has been arrested and being interrogated at the Itele Police Station but residents of that area say the suspect either threw the corpse into the uncompleted building, or brought the persons that abandoned the corpse.