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Tuesday, 25 June 2013

OAU Authorities Say Student Didn’t Attempt To Flush Baby

The well-publicised
allegation that a student of the Obafemi Awolowo University tried to flush away
a newborn has been termed incorrect by the school authorities.

The
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) on Thursday clarified that Diana Rotimi
Oyinlola, an undergraduate, who delivered a baby in the toilet on campus did
not attempt to kill the baby.

The
were reports in a section of the media since the incident happened at Moremi
hall on Wednesday that Oyinlola attempted to ditch the baby. However, a
statement signed by Biodun Olanrewaju, the university’s Public Relations
Officer (PRO), on Thursday described the reports as “incorrect”.

Mr.
Olanrewaju said that an interaction with the mother of the baby by the Security
Unit of the university among other university officials, revealed that the
student was willing to have the child.

He
said that there was “no attempt whatsoever to conceal the pregnancy, not to
talk of aborting it and wanting to flush the baby away through the Water Closet
(WC).

“The
truth is that there was a delivery of a baby boy by an inexperienced mother,
who in her naivety, thought she was pressed by call of nature, while she was
actually in labour pains. “Prior to the childbirth, the inexperienced mother
had discovered that she was bleeding and went to the toilet only to observe
that something expelled into the water closet.

“It
was at that juncture that she screamed and shouted for help when one of her
friends Satope Oladayo, heard her distress voice and quickly traced her to the
toilet from their room. “It was when Satope entered the toilet and found the
baby that she (Satope) called an elderly cleaner for assistance because the two
of them were novice in childbearing,” the statement stated.

The
father of the new baby is a 400- level student of Mechanical Engineering, while
the 20-year-old mother is also a final year student in the same university. (Nairaland )