Ibijoke Apena (L) and Janet Eruwayo (R)
These Two octogenerian Ibijoke Apena and Janeth Eruwayo are not finding lives easy in their old age because they have been abandoned by their children., they are presently living in a one-room apartment abandoned and left to their fate.
Infact their neighbours at Amusan Street, Rogo, along Iju-Ishaga Road, Lagos State, are no longer at ease with the two sisters as they consider their continued presence, a nuisance. Their living condition is unimaginable – they defecate, urinate and do so many things in the same place they eat and sleep. The stench emanating from their quarters is so appalling that people around throw up!
Originally from Jakpa, in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, the sisters have spent more than 60 years of their lives outside Delta.
Even when it was obvious that their children had forsaken them, they cocooned themselves in the world of pretence, saying “our children have not abandoned us. Don’t speak ill of our children.”
But one thing nobody can take away from the octogenarians is their intelligence and impeccable English. Eruwayo attended Queen’s College, Lagos.
Apena the older of the two is 87years old, she says she was married to the family of Apena in Lagos and have five children but one is dead. her late husband died more than 20 years ago. while Erudayo who is 82 say she has four children.
Most neighbors cannot cannot fathom why their children abandoned their mothers. infact one of the neighbours who wants to remain annonymous said when she with some the children, they did not want to hear anything about the old women. One simply told me: ‘If they die, let us know. We will give them decent burial’.”
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