A lady, Nneka Omenka with the
help of her mother, Sesi Eko have killed her 13-year-old half-sister, Precious
Omenka after brutally beating her for bed-wetting.
Late Precious, according to their
father was staying with her older half-sister Nneka and Nneka’s mother Seki Eko
in Lekki, Lagos when she was brutally beaten, eventually leading to her death.
Mr. Emeka Omenka, the father of
the deceased, said he had Nneka out of wedlock with Seki Eko. He later got
married and his wife Ifeoma raised Nneka as her own as she found it hard
conceiving her first child.
Mr Emeka Omenka said his older
daughter Nneka asked that her younger sister Precious pays her a visit.
Precious went to Nneka’s house in Ikota, Lekki on October 12, but was returned
on October 16 looking weak with complaints of body pains. She informed her
parents that she had been beaten by Nneka and her mother Seki Eko for wetting
the bed.
Precious, a JSS 3 student, was
taken to Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Ebute Metta where she died on October 25
from complications resulting from the beating she allegedly received from her
half-sister Nneka and Nneka’s mother.
Precious’ death certificate
revealed that the primary and secondary causes of death were Acute Kidney
Injury (AKI) and Cardiopulmonary Collapse.
Reacting to his daughter’s death,
Mr Omenka who spoke to The Nation said: “I am in pain. My heart is broken.
Nneka is my first daughter. I had her out of wedlock with one Seki Eko I was in
a relationship with. Nneka was trained by my wife Ifeoma who loved her like her
own child.
“When I got married to my wife,
it was difficult for her to conceive and so she brought up Nneka like her own
child. So, when she came and said Precious should come to her place, we did not
have any reason to deny her request.
“Her husband lives in Dubai. She
promised to send her to a private school to appreciate my wife for taking care
of her.
“Precious went to her place on
October 12. It was that weekend that it rained all through. Then, on October
14, which was a Monday, it also rained and Precious said she peed on the bed.
That was her offence that made my daughter and her mother to descend on her
like that.
“When they finished, they brought
her back and dumped her at my place in Apapa Road, Ebute Metta. She was
complaining of body pains and narrated what happened to her at her sister’s
place in tears. I could not bear it and I wept as she was talking.
“My wife and I bought painkillers
that we gave her. My wife was also using hot water and cloth to massage her
body. We did not know that it was so bad. When we saw that she was not getting
better despite the painkillers, we decided to take her to FMC because that’s
where she was born.
“She was already stooling on her
body and her mother was cleaning it. So, at the hospital, she was rushed to the
emergency room after the doctors said she was short of blood. They did so many
tests and scans and discovered that she was bleeding internally and that her
bladder burst too.
“She was in the hospital some
days and was booked for emergency surgery. I was busy running around to raise
money to save my daughter’s life. I even borrowed from friends and family
members so that she could be saved but at last we lost her.
“Nneka did not tell me what
happened to my daughter and did not even come to the hospital until her
relative from her mother’s side who works at the FMC called her to rebuke her.
That was when she came and spent about N14,000 on my daughter’s drugs that day.
“I did not go to the police
station then because I was busy running around for my daughter to be alright.
But after she passed on…my kinsmen advised I report at the station. I went to
Denton Police Station and Iponri but they told me it did not happen in their
jurisdiction and that I should go to Lekki to report.
“I just sent a message to her
husband and told him what she did. My wife has been inconsolable since then.
“I want justice for my daughter.
I feel very disappointed that this happened to my family. I want human rights
to come and government to investigate this case. Nneka is my daughter but
Precious is also my daughter and she did not deserve to die like that,” he
said.
The Nation reports that Nneka
told those around her that her younger sister died as a result of ruptured
appendicitis, adding that the girl was ill before she took her to her house.
But the mother of the deceased
told the publication that she was still in shock over the incident and denied
insinuations that Precious might have been ill.
She said: “My daughter was very
healthy and even cooked for her younger ones that day before following Nneka.
Nneka and her mother should explain what happened to my daughter. Nneka was
brought to my house when she was 17 and we trained her in the university. I
never did any wrong to her and then, she chose to pay me back this way?”
Meanwhile, a coalition of child
advocates has volunteered to take over the case and ensure justice.
Sources at the police station
said an order to exhume the teenager’s body would be sought so that autopsy
could be conducted.
Police spokesman Bala Elkana
confirmed the case was reported at Ajiwe Division in Ajah, adding that the
suspects have been arrested.
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