A 55-year-old woman, Amoke Adeko, has been reported to havegooo/metro-plus/mother-commits-suicide-after-being-shunned-by-daughter/”> jumped into a well in front of her residence.
Her body was recovered from the well on Friday, August 7, at about 11pm.
The mother of five was said to have been traumatized since her husband died eight months ago.
Her grandson was celebrating his birthday in the Igando area on the
day it happened and her daughter, Amirat, the mother of the birthday
boy, had brought a package of food prepared during the ceremony for her.
However, she sent someone else to give her mother the food, which
made the deceased feel like she was being shunned by her daughter and
consequently decided to end her life.
A resident said: “The woman had not been herself since her husband
died. Amirat brought the food for her that afternoon, but she avoided
her and sent it through someone else.
“I don’t know why she did that, but the mother felt embarrassed
because she saw her daughter from afar. It was around 5pm. About two
hours later, she jumped into the well.”
She was found when a neighbour, who heard a sudden thud, rushed to
the well and saw Adeko’s slippers beside it. He was said to have raised
the alarm after he went to her room and looked round the compound but
did not find her.
Adeko’s first son, Ahmed, said he was not aware that Amirat shunned
their mother, adding that she usually visited him and his siblings.
He said, “She used to come to my place; spend some weeks and visit my
sister too. This is her husband’s house and we can’t say she should
leave. Before the incident happened, she had been with my sister for
some weeks. We took her to her church and after some prayers, we decided
that she should go back home. That we don’t come here always does not
mean we abandoned her. My dad died eight months ago; we did not abandon
her.
“I don’t know what led to the incident but she was not traumatised.
That day, my sister was marking her son’s birthday and I sent her to
bring food for mum. She brought the food around 2pm. It was around
5.30pm that a resident called to inform me about the incident. She
(Amirat) is not around now but she did not tell me that she gave the
food to somebody else to deliver to her. What she told me was that she
met her upstairs.”