Economic Hardship: Tragedy as woman drops 3 children at police station, dives under moving vehicle, crushed to death

The three children, who could not give any other information about their family, town, or residential address, were aged between six and two years. They could only say their father was lost.

The man had allegedly absconded from home some months ago because of the  increasing hardship, abandoning his wife and the children.

However, Nkechinyere Mbah,  the Enugu State First Lady, promised to take care of the children and train them from nursery school to university, a responsibility that her Custos Care Foundation would take up.

Governor Mbah’s wife also directed that the children should be relocated from the police station to a home, where the state government could take care of them.

Mrs Mbah urged people who suffer depression to seek counselling and avoid rash decisions, adding that Ngozi Enih, the Commissioner, Ministry of Children, Gender and Social Development, should intensify sensitisation and counselling, especially for the depressed.