Mother, five-month-old baby rescued from Lagos canal

Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, popularly known arsenic Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), person rescued a parent and her five-month-old girl from a canal astatine Abule-Ado, on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

The brace were reportedly discovered connected Wednesday during a regular clearance cognition conducted by KAI unit successful the area.

The agency’s spokesperson, Lukman Ajayi disclosed this during a telephone conversation, saying the operatives became acrophobic aft uncovering the parent and babe wrong the canal.

Ajayi said the pistillate was incapable to supply a satisfactory mentation for their beingness astatine the location, portion the babe was recovered successful an unhealthy condition.

He said the operatives instantly intervened to safeguard the lives of some parent and kid and transported them to a adjacent infirmary for aesculapian attention.

“Today, our operatives rescued a parent and her five-month-old babe miss from a canal astatine Abule-Ado during regular clearance operations connected the Lagos-Badagry Expressway,” Ajayi said.

According to him, the pistillate told the operatives that she had near her husband, who resides successful FESTAC, but could not adequately explicate however she and the kid ended up successful the canal.

“The parent could not springiness a satisfactory answer...