Goat delivers human-like baby goat in Ekiti
(Nigeria) The sleepy town of Ogotu-Ekiti in Ekiti South West Local
Government Area, Ekiti State was on Tuesday thrown into confusion when
information filtered that a goat had delivered a human-like baby goat.
The incident, which occurred in Lori Oke settlement, a
village that is about 10 kilometres from Ogotun town, drew the attention of
hundreds of residents and travellers.
The spokesman of the community, Sunday Ogunmeji, who spoke
with NAN on behalf of the Baale (community head), Ganiyu Adetoun,
said a pastor, Mr Daniel Odedele, helped to deliver the goat of the baby.
``After watching the goat labour for several hours, the
pastor took pity on it and courageously pulled the baby out, only for it to
turn out to be human-like. The `baby’ had all the features of a human
being such as human face, head, hair,
female genitals, two legs and two arms with hoofs.
``However, the human-like baby died at about noon as a
result of lack of care as the crowd merely trooped there to watch rather than
to attempt to save its life,’’ Ogunmeji said.
A resident, Mr Saidi Oladepo, who is a commercial motorcycle
(Okada) operator, told NAN that
immediately the goat delivered the `human-like baby’, it took to its heels.
He said that as soon as members of the community got wind of
the incident, they ran helter-skelter in apparent confusion.
He said alarm was raised and the local security agents,
referred to as `Peace Corps’, were alerted to the incident.
Oladepo added that it took more than two hours to re-capture
the goat in the bush.
The traditional ruler of Ogotun-Ekiti, Oba Samuel Oyebode,
could not be reached for comment as he was said to be in a meeting of the
Traditional Council.
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