According to neighbours, trouble started after
Seubow lost the N1,000 given to him by Iya Anu to run an errand for her some
days back. Angered by the loss which she claimed was theft, the woman refused
to feed Seubow for over four days. When the teenager couldn’t take the hunger
anymore, he sneaked out to buy gala one night. When Iya Anu found out, she
accused him of stealing her N50 and beat him up, using a rod. She battered him
for days until he gave the ghost on Sunday afternoon.
The woman known locally as Iya Anu beat her 16 year
old foster son, Seubow, to death for allegedly stealing N50. Seybow was Iya
Anu’s husband’s nephew.
According to neighbours, trouble started after
Seubow lost the N1,000 given to him by Iya Anu to run an errand for her some
days back. Angered by the loss which she claimed was theft, the woman refused
to feed Seubow for over four days. When the teenager couldn’t take the hunger
anymore, he sneaked out to buy gala one night. When Iya Anu found out, she
accused him of stealing her N50 and beat him up, using a rod. She battered him
for days until he gave the ghost on Sunday afternoon.
After his death, neighbours rounded the woman up and
made her carry the boy’s corpse to the police station. If only the neighbours
had intervened earlier. This wasn’t the first she would batter him. The photo
on the right was taken in June at a police station where Iya Anu was taken to
after seriously battering the boy. No one came to his rescue and he ended up
dying in her hands. Sad!
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