Sani visited the baby on Tuesday at Restored Destiny Child Orphanage Foundation and pledged to provide necessary support.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Senator Shehu Sani has named an abandoned two-week-old baby he adopted as Jordan Shehu.
The child was reportedly found by a police patrol team in Nasarawa State.
Sani visited the baby on Tuesday at Restored Destiny Child Orphanage Foundation and pledged to provide necessary support.
The former lawmaker, who represented Kaduna Central in the Eight Assembly, said the increased rate of abandoned children was worrisome.
Sani said reports had shown that many children, who were born under such circumstance were from unwanted pregnancies, particularly from young girls.
According to him, the mothers of such abandoned children do so to avoid stigmatisation.
He said, while no immoral act should be condoned, girls who got pregnant outside wedlock should be supported and counselled.
The lawmaker said different factors were responsible for mothers abandoning their children.
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“One of the factors is the stigma attached to such birth and I think it is high time our society began to address and discuss this issue.
“By addressing this issue the idea of shaming people who give birth to this type of children will be checked.
“It is also important that our society starts to pay attention to orphanages, where these type of children are kept.
“Children without parents belong to the society and we must play our part in their upbringing,” he said.
Sani commend the orphanage for agreeing to take up the care of the baby.
The former lawmaker also called on leaders to use their positions to change the narrative.
He said, “Our traditional and religious leaders should wade into this issue, first to prevent the type of pregnancy that leads to this kind of birth.
“However, when it happens, we should accept them as one of us.
“There is nobody that is born without a father or a mother.
“So when we begin to discuss this issue, it will make it easier for children born under such circumstances to live with their parents.”
