A 21-year-old girl identified as Kemi, at the weekend,
committed suicide in Isale Asa Ilorin, Kwara State.
The deceased, who was a fashion designer, allegedly took her
own life with a locally-made rat poison known as sole lasan following
uncomplimentary comments from her mother during a brawl.
A neighbour, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the
girl and her mum had a quarrel on Friday night and in the course of the brawl,
Mummy Kemi, as her mom is popularly called, referred to her daughter as “a
complete failure and a disgrace to the family”.
The neighbour said the deceased’s mother, who operates a
grinding machine nearby, went to her shop and Kemi, who was unhappy with her
mother’s comment, went into her room and drank the poison.
“When Mummy Kemi came in about 30 minutes later, she saw
that Kemi was writhing in pains. She was said to have raised the alarm,” the
source said.
The source said sympathisers, who suspected Kemi might have
taken a poisonous substance, quickly rushed her to a nearby hospital for
medical attention but the doctors there referred them to the University of
Ilorin Teaching Hospital.
She died on her way to the teaching hospital.
Olufemi Fabode, the State’s Police Command’s spokesperson,
could not be reached for confirmation as his mobile phone was switched off.
N:B This is so sad at the same time we all have to know that
in this world people will always throw stones in the path of our success
(mostly those closer to us), it depends on us... what we make from them a Wall
or a Bridge
And mothers, watch what you say because they may come back
to hurt you.
Source: The Nigerian
Telegraph
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