13-years old boy commits suicide to protest mums abuse

A 13-year-old boy has committed suicide after
his mother allegedly rained abuses on him.
The teenager, identified as only Rokeeb, was
found hanging from a tree last Monday, around
9 am, at 25 Ekimogun Street, Apelehin under,
an uncompleted building located in Isokan
community in Bariga area of Lagos.
According to Saturday Sun, neighbours said
that Rokeeb could have sunk into depression
after his mother launched a tirade at him in
which, she allegedly told him to go hang
himself if he liked.
On the sad day, the young boy was spotted
doing the call to prayer in the local mosque
situated at Kehinde lane, close to his house.
Reacting to the sad news, Rokeeb?s Quranic
teacher known as Alfa Sambo, said the boy,
after performing the religious assignment that
morning continued reading the Quran in the
Mosque but suddenly left when he saw his
mother going out.
?He told Alfa that he wants to go and help his
mother carry her load,? an eyewitness told
Saturday Sun. ?Rokeeb?s mother sells noodles
at a bus stop in Bariga. Few minutes after, we
heard the mother shouting and abusing the
boy, I was confused as to what could have
gone wrong with Rokeeb and his mother. But I
didn?t go out to confirm what the cause of
the outburst was.?
Another neighbor who was the scene of
occurrence said one of Rokeeb?s siblings told
her that the deceased asked their mother for
money, but she told him she did not have.
Then Rokeeb started grumbling and
complaining about life, saying that he was
tired of living. That apparently annoyed the
mother and made her reply in anger that if he
was tired of life he should go and hang
himself, the neighbor said
?We heard some residents shouting for help
that Monday morning,? a resident who simply
identified himself as Kunle, said, adding: ?we
found Rokeeb hanging and struggling for
breath. We took him down and rushed him to
Gbagada General Hospital, but he died at the
emergency section before medical help could
get to him.?
According to Saturday Saturday Sun, Rokeeb?s
mother is a single mother of three. Rokeeb
was a product of her first marriage, which
crashed. She remarried and had the last two
children. That marriage also crashed, so,
currently, she is not with any man, one said.

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