Nursing mother commits suicide four months after child birth.

A nursing mother has committed suicide, four months in the wake of conceiving a set of twins, on Oremerin Street, Ladilak, Somolu, Lagos State. The lady, Mrs. Muji Kazeem, a beautician, was discovered dead in a well on Tuesday morning. The well was placed two houses to the residence that Muji and her spouse, Adewale, were living.

Our journalist, who went to the Kazeems, learnt that the twins came five years later of marriage.

Kazeem, 28, said his wife was discovered dead in the well two days after she was declared missing. He said, "We were as one on Sunday night having supplications to God around 9.30pm. At that point, the children began shouting, so I let to go and breastfeed them. "When I was done praying, she had dozed off with the twins on the couch. I spread a mat on the floor by the doorway and slumbered off. "Muji woke up around 11.30pm and went outside. One of my companions let me know that he saw her around then taking cool air before he headed off inside to rest." Kazeem said he was stir by the wailing of the twins around 1am.

He said he hunt down their mother without victory. The point when the day broke, Kazeem raised the alert that his wife was lost. The neighbourhood was said to have been tossed into perplexity as a pursuit gathering was organised to search for her without any sign of her. The matter was later reported at the Pedro Police Station. Kazeem said, "We saw her dress close to the well on Monday night and got cheerful. We strengthened requests to God for her. However it was 7am the next day that a lady, who needed to draw water from the well, saw that the drawer did not get water. She got a torchlight, sharp it down the well and saw the swollen body of my wife." He said Muji had been covered at the Atan Cemetry at Yaba in accordance with Islamic rituals. "We covered her at the Atan Cemetery in the wake of acquiring police report.

My mother has taken my babies to care for them," he said. Kazeem depicted his late wife as a delicate and bright lady, who never battled or quarrelled with anybody since he met her. He said, "We have never had any motivation to battle or oppose this idea. I don't know whether she annoyed any individual who chose not to pardon her. Yet for me, I have taken this as my fate." However, PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased has been depressed a couple of days before her death. A source inside the range, said the 25-year-old mother, could at times be somewhere out in dreamland for numerous hours and might not react to welcome until individuals yelled at her. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, guaranteed to return to our reporter when she was contacted on the phone.

Source: Punch.