A 35-year-old mom of six whose husband, Hembadoon Tarhemba, was killed by gunmen, and taking refuge on the Internally Displaced Individuals (IDPs) Camp positioned at Abagena, Benue State, has slumped and died.
The immediate-past lady chief of the camp, Esther Oota, instructed LEADERSHIP in a phone dialog that Hembadoon, a lactating mom of below one-year-old twins, went to fetch firewood from a close-by bush alongside two different girls to arrange breakfast for her youngsters when the incident occurred.
The deceased was within the means of breaking the firewood when she slumped and all efforts to revive her by some members of the camp who rushed to the scene proved abortive.
Esther lamented that the deceased widow left the home within the morning to allow her to gather firewoods to come back again early and cook dinner for her youngsters, however didn’t return alive as she desired.
The previous lady chief instructed our correspondent that the corpse was nonetheless mendacity within the morgue whereas the twins have been left with the deceased’s little youngsters and an IDP foster mom within the camp who themselves have been struggling to feed.
The mom had named one of many twins, a boy, Alia and the lady, Mimidoo, for giving beginning to them on the day the state’s governor, Hyacinth Alia, was sworn in.
In response to Esther, the deceased got here from Tse Uhembe, Yogbo, in Mbagwen following the herdsmen assault that claimed the lifetime of her husband and had stayed within the camp for the previous seven years.
An eyewitness, who visited the household of the deceased on the camp to provide them help, described the situation of the twins as pathetic, saying they have been trying weak and pale, whilst he appealed to the State Emergency Administration Company (SEMA) to not enable Alia and Mimidoo to die for lack of consideration.
“I need to enchantment to the management of SEMA and all well-meaning Nigerians, civil society organisations in addition to faith-based organisations to come back to assistance from the kids Hembadoon left behind as orphans, particularly the twins, Alia and Mimidioo directly,” the Good Samarithan said.
Efforts to talk with the SEMA boss, James Iorpuu, on the incident proved abortive as his aide instructed our correspondent that his principal travelled to Jos, Plateau State, whilst he was neither choosing nor returning calls and messages put throughout to his cell phone.