The widow of Sergeant Sunday Badang, who died while trying to defuse an improvised explosive device (IED), has been delivered of a baby girl, four months after his death.
Rose Badang, 35, was five months pregnant when an IED exploded and killed her husband, Sunday, in the Uguwan Sarki area of Kaduna State.
The late Sergeant Badang was killed in February while using a metal detector to test an object suspected to be a bomb near the Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna.
The widow, who gave birth to a bouncing baby girl in Kaduna, was full of emotions while recalling the good times she had with her late husband.
The latest baby brings to four, the number of children born to the family of the late Sergeant Badang.
The oldest child of the family, Edward Badang, who informed LEADERSHIP WEEKEND about the development on the phone, said, “My mother gave birth to a bouncing baby girl. Both mother and baby are doing well.”
This is coming on the heels of a post-humous promotion of the late Sunday Badang to inspector by the Inspector-general of police, Mohammad D. Abubakar.
Kaduna State commissioner of police Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar in a statement by the spokesperson of the command, DSP AminuLawan said the late anti-bomb squad policeman has been post-humously promoted by the IG to inspector.
“The death of the sergeant, which also attracted wide public sympathy, was deeply felt by the IGP, the police management team and the entire spectrum of the force.
According to the commissioner, “this was not only because he died in a very active duty but given the fact that he was a highly dedicated, patriotic, zealous and hardworking policeman.
“All these are obvious indications that hard work, sacrifice and patriotism never go unrewarded.
“The Kaduna State police command and the family are full of praises for the IGP for these recognitions,” the commissioner said.
SOURCE: 2 June 2012.
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