18 Year Old Girl, Amaka Beaten To Death By Her Parent For Dating A Yoruba Boy
The Lagos State Police Command has said it is waiting for medical report to ascertain the cause of death of an 18-year-old girl, Amaka, who was allegedly beaten to death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Nweke, for dating and having a baby for a Muslim Yoruba boy.
Amaka and her boyfriend, Ibrahim Lawal, were said to have met when she was in Senior Secondary School. The relationship later resulted into pregnancy, which her parents kicked against. She later delivered a baby boy, christened Zaeed.
Her friends claim Amaka went through hell while pregnant for defying her parents.
One of the Nwekes neighbours Adebola, said
They told her that they didn’t want her to continue associating with the boy. They used to beat her with different objects even while she was pregnant. Whenever her boyfriend brought food to her, they would not allow her to have access to it.
They told her that they didn’t want her to continue associating with the boy They used to beat her with different objects even while she was pregnant. Whenever her boyfriend brought food to her, they would not allow her to have access to it.”
When Amaka was delivered of her baby, her parents couldn’t afford the medical bill. They had to call on Ibrahim’s family and they gladly paid up.
After she was released from the hospital, her parents tried to prevent the boy’s family from naming their grandchild. But it took the intervention of the Chairman of the Community Development Association and some elders in the area before the Nwekes released the baby to them.
Ibrahim’s mother, Ebunola, said that she reported the repeated beatings to the police. She said:
When my son impregnated Amaka, I didn’t reject the pregnancy.
On January 1, 2020, she called Ibrahim that her mother had started beating her again for collecting clothes and money from us.
It was during the beating that she became unconscious and later confirmed death.
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