Girl, 18, Murders Mother over order to cook

A girl of about 18 years has killed her mother in Rumuchakara village in Choba community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Choba community, one of the communities that plays host to the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport) witnessed rowdiness after a young girl allegedly killed her mother with a plank.

A source that is privy to the family said that disagreement had ensued between the young lady whose name withheld and her late mother on Wednesday evening after the mother had asked her to go and prepare the night meal.

The source said that the young girl protested that she would not cook and that made her mother to slap her. Vanguard gathered that after her mother slapped her for refusing to cook that the little girl picked up a plank and smashed her mother’s head.

Vanguard also gathered that every efforts made to save the life of the woman from the fatal injury she sustained did not yield positively.

The source revealed that the whereabouts of the girl is yet to be known since the news of her mother’s death broke up, Thursday. But the leaders of the community have passed a decree that the young girl should not return to the community anymore.

As at the time of this report the police are yet to comment on it.