‘She’s destined for greatness’— Betta Edu celebrates dying malnourished baby rescued seven years ago

Betta Edu, national women leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has celebrated the birthday of a malnourished baby she rescued seven years ago in Cross River state.

In a birthday message on her Facebook account on Sunday, Edu described Christy, the rescued baby, as one destined for greatness.

Edu reflected on the day she found the abandoned baby while on public health fieldwork in a remote community, saying she mistook the child for a dead dog.

“It still feels like yesterday. I clearly remember that day when we went out there for public health fieldwork in a remote community. I sighted something I thought was a dead small dog lying on a dirty veranda,” the APC national women leader said.

“I told the state nutrition officer (SNO) who was with me on a community sweep seeking for malnourished children, that we will not go into that compound because I don’t want any rabies-infected dog to bite me since one was dead already and another could be by the side. 

“God had you in mind Christy it was your day for rescue! My SNO said no madam, I think it’s a dying severely malnourished child, we were two compounds away! 

“The minute I heard dying child, my blood ran cold and I walked over to you. At first, I wondered how a woman will let her child die in her very face until I met the mother who was only a teenager and was equally struggling to stay alive, a child who was molested and had another child she couldn’t cater for.”

Edu said she knew immediately that God had brought her there to save Christy and Esther, her teenage mother. 

The mother and child who are in good health now have decent accommodation and are both in school, Edu added.