A girl of about 18 years has killed her mother in
Rumuchakara village in Choba community, Rivers State.
Choba community, one of the communities that plays host to
the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport) witnessed rowdiness after a young
girl allegedly killed her mother with a plank.
It was said that a disagreement had ensued between the young
lady whose name withheld and her late mother on Wednesday evening after the
mother had asked her to go and prepare the night meal. The young girl protested
that she would not cook and that made her mother to slap her.
It was after her mother slapped her for refusing to cook
that the little girl picked up a plank and smashed her mother’s head, and every efforts made to save the life of the
woman from the fatal injury she sustained did not yield positively.
The whereabouts of the girl is yet to be known since the
news of her mother’s death broke up.
The leaders of the
community have passed a decree that the young girl should not return to the
community anymore. (Does this tradition
still work)
As at the time of this report the police are yet to comment
on it.
