Lagos Sanitation Officers Save Four Young Mothers and Infants Living in Filthy Dumpsite

Officials of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps, popularly known as KAI, have rescued four young nursing mothers and their infant children from an illegal dumpsite and makeshift shanties in the Agboju area of Lagos State.

The rescue took place during an ongoing inter-agency cleanup exercise along the busy Lagos-Badagry Expressway corridor, where government taskforces have been working to clear illegal structures and environmental hazards.

Disclosing the development, KAI Corps Marshal Major Olaniyi Cole (retd.) revealed that environmental taskforce officers were shocked to discover young mothers and delicate babies living in squalor inside illegal dumpsite shanties.

According to the agency, the women and children were surviving under severe conditions, exposed to foul air, accumulated garbage, and extreme hunger. Among those rescued was a 20-year-old mother caring for a nine-day-old newborn baby in the waste area.

The agency identified the rescued women as Fareedat Muyideen, 23, from Kwara State (with her two-year-old baby); Ayomide Ayomoke, 25, from Ondo State (with her 10-month-old baby); Amanda Oziema Abalihi, 20, from Anambra State (with her nine-day-old baby); and Chisom Ugo, 24, from Imo State (with her 11-month-old baby).

Cole emphasized that swift intervention was necessary to protect the health and lives of the mothers and infants. KAI operatives provided emergency medical treatment to all four families before initiating steps to hand them over to government social welfare agencies and reunite them with their families.