“Please release my daughter, make she go find food for me. Nah she dey give me food. I don beg tire. I don tire. Make una leave my pikin for me. If I die now, who go bury me. Nah only her I get.”
A distraught 90-year-old mother has begged former First Lady Patience Jonathan to secure the freedom of her daughter, Deborah Erema, detained since 2019 over alleged involvement in the disappearance of jewelry belonging to Jonathan. In a SaharaTV video, the frail woman wept, stating she now begs for food due to her daughter’s absence.
“Nobody go give me food…nah only her dey give me. I don tire. Make una leave my pikin for me,” she pleaded. Erema, a former aide to Jonathan, is among staff held despite over 40 court adjournments in the stalled case, per PUNCH reports.
The nonagenarian’s plight highlights the human toll of the prolonged legal limbo, as she fears dying without care or burial. “If I die now, who go bury me? Nah only her I get,” she cried.
While the EFCC prosecutes the case, critics decry delayed justice. The mother’s appeal underscores growing calls for expedited resolutions in politically linked trials, with advocates urging humanitarian consideration for detainees’ dependents.