“I was sweeping the day she came. I did not know her
as my mother. My father then told me that she was my mother and she had come to
take me to Lagos. When we came to Lagos, I started to live with her and my
step-father. But she beat me all the time.”
Asked
what happened on Monday to make his mother stab him, Promise said he tripped
and fell.
“When I fell, my mother asked me what pushed me and
why I fell. She was angry and went to take her N30 cane. When she was beating
me too much and I was screaming, one of our neighbours came to hold her hand to
take the cane away from her. The woman said I should run away because my mother
would kill me the way she was beating me.”
“My mother said ‘I will kill you, I will kill you’.
When she could not find anything else to beat me with, she took a broken bottle
on the ground and started to stab me on the back.”
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