The hospital staff told Celeste Ayala that the baby was starving because his mother couldn’t afford to feed him, and he had five older siblings.
Without worrying about her police uniform, she took the baby in her arms and unbuttoned her shirt to breastfeed him.
While Ayala breastfed the baby without thinking twice, even after the staff told her he was “dirty,” her colleague took a picture of her and posted it on Facebook, making it go viral.
Once the news reached higher authorities, Ayala’s boss called her into his office.
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During the meeting, Ayala’s boss told her of the promotion she earned after going the extra mile while on duty by breastfeeding the baby.
“That’s the type of police we’re proud of, the police we want.”
At the same time, the question is: Could this have happened in Naija?
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