True Life Story: My Family Accused Me of Killing My Mother For Ruining My Marriage
Hello Livelystones,
On Monday, my uncle called to inform me that my mother had passed away. Uncle Tony, my mother’s youngest brother, accused me of being responsible for her death. He broke down during the five minutes call, and with deep bitterness, he told me to come and carry his sister’s corpse as a trophy.
“Now that you have succeeded, l hope you are satisfied”, he barked at me during the call.
I was in shock, sometimes, life can be so full of pain that you begin to wonder whether God does not want you to be happy at all.
Yes, I had a very bitter quarrel with my mother before her death. But that doesn’t mean that I wanted her dead. Infact, l didn’t wish her any harm at all.
Moreover, even though she was responsible for my predicament, she had no intention of having things turn out the way it did. My mother meant well for me. Both of us were just victims of an ugly fate.
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This is exactly what happened.
My name is Chidalu, and l’m the only son of my parents. I have one elder sister, and three younger ones. My late father was a photographer before he died of Hepatitis, when l was just eight. It was my mother who brought five of us up by sheer hardwork and determination. She owned a shop at Ariara Market, Aba, where she sold drums of vegetable oil. She made a lot of money from her business, and we never lacked anything after my father’s death. As her only son, I was especially spoilt silly by her.
I attended Federal Government College Umuahia. And later went to the University of Port Harcourt, to study Statistics.
It was in school that l met Ese. She was my course-mate, and was a very beautiful girl. What attracted me to her was her intellect though. It wasn’t everyday that you see a very beautiful girl, that is also very intelligent. We started talking, and we later became lovers, after she fell ill and had an appendectomy carried out on her. She was from Edo State, but her whole family lived in Faraway Sokoto State, as her father was a police officer serving there.
So l was the one that took care of her while she was in the hospital. I bought beverages and fruits for her and was always by her bedside. Our love for each other grew by leaps afterwards. We were literally inseparable.
We got engaged in my fourth year in the University. I then took Ese home to my mother for introductions. My mom was very pleased that l was preparing to get married. She desperately wanted me to marry early and have male children. I knew that my mother had some reservations, for the fact that Ese was not an Igbo girl. But she decided that since l loved the girl, that she’s okay with her. After all, what she wanted were grand- children.
In 2014, Ese and l graduated, l was posted to Damaturu in Yobe State for my NYSC, while she was posted to Lagos. She got a primary assignment with a major Real Estate company, and at the end of her service year, she was retained. I had to teach Mathematics at a secondary school. As soon as my NYSC program was over, l packed my belongings and came to Lagos to join Ese in her modest residence in Mushin.
For eight months, l couldn’t get a job. My mother started pestering me to marry Ese and have children. I gave into her pressures and married Ese, even though l was jobless at the time of our wedding. It was my mother that sponsored our wedding.
Afterwards, l took a loan of 5 million naira from my mom and went into computer accessories business. Gradually but surely, my business started growing.
Two years after we were married, Ese was yet to conceive a child. And that was when my mother started giving us hell.
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I loved my wife and was ready to do anything to keep my marriage. But my mother went about telling the whole of my family, that l had married a Benin prostitute who had damaged her womb from series of abortions and could not conceive.
I was so hurt by her slanderous pronouncements against my wife that l decided never to travel to my hometown again. My mother then went about telling anyone who cared to listen that my wife had used ‘Benin juju’ to prevent me from associating with the rest of the family. It got so bad that even my sisters, all of whom hitherto loved my wife Ese, started finding fault in whatever she did.
In December 2019, my mother got very ill with fibroids. My elder sister Nkechi, lives in Lagos with her banker husband. They have a duplex in Ajao Estate. But, when my mother had to come to Lagos to receive quality medical attention, they all conspired among themselves that my mom must stay in my house; just to find reason to make trouble with my wife.
After my mom’s surgery at St. Nicholas hospital, life became hell for my wife and l. My sisters all deliberately refused to help out by taking care of my mom. My wife had to take food to her every morning, and take her clothes home to wash, and still find time to go to her office. My mother complained at whatever my wife did. She often refused to eat what my wife cooked, and was always lamenting to anyone who cared to listen that my wife and l had left her to die of hunger.
The burden of taking sole care of my mom was so heavy on my wife, that she started arriving late to work, and got several queries at her office.
I had to step in fully to save her job. I told her to face her job, and let me take care of my mother. I left my apprentice to run my shop, while l focused on taking care of my mother in the hospital.
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But, it was a lousy mistake. My mother cried every day; telling me that l wanted her to die without seeing her male grand-children, so she can be rest assured that my father’s lineage will not be wiped out before she died. It got so bad that l had to abandon her at the hospital after a few days. I told my sisters that l had tried my best, and that if they don’t want to take care of our mother from thence, it was up to them.
Nkechi did take over from me and looked after my mom at the hospital.
But after a month, she was discharged. And my real problems started
To be continued……
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