Mr. Godstime Ihunwo, the Chief Security Officer of Nkpolu Orowurokwo working with the Diobu vigilante group, provided further details. "In the early hours of today, July 23, at about 5 a.m., my team and I were on patrol. On getting to Ikwerre Road/Ekwe Street, Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt, we discovered that a newborn baby was dumped in a manhole. We discovered that the baby was dead. It was a male. I quickly rushed down to the Nkpolu Police Division to make an entry and also contacted Prince Wiro, a human rights activist."

Prince Wiro, the National Coordinator of the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, condemned the mother's actions, describing it as an act of extreme cruelty. "It is sad that before the vigilante group discovered the infant male, he was already dead. The action of the mother of the child is a crime that is punishable under Nigerian law."