A Mother’s Last Pain: One Year After Idiat Yusuf’s Death

There are some stories that refuse to die, even when the people at the centre of them are long gone. Today, exactly one year after Madam Idiat Yusuf’s death, the memory of the woman and the painful circumstances surrounding her final days still linger in the minds of those who knew the family.

She was the woman who, according to those close to the family, succumbed to the powerful hands of death amid the emotional trauma surrounding her only daughter, Kikelomo Yusuf, who reportedly had to run for cover after news broke about her alleged homosexual lifestyle.

Although there is no concrete evidence of her whereabouts, it was gathered that her father, Amusa Yusuf, also almost lost his life after suffering a severe bout of high blood pressure, reportedly triggered by the same painful situation involving his darling daughter.

If the father, Amusa Yusuf, was lucky enough to survive, his wife and the mother of Kikelomo was said to have died a few months after the young woman disappeared with her 12-year-old daughter.

Prayers were reportedly held at the family’s home in Ikorodu, Lagos, in honour of the late woman.

According to what this news medium gathered, the young woman was allegedly caught red-handed in bed with her female lover, an incident that reportedly angered a mob, who descended on both of them.

That incident, according to the account gathered, was followed by the disappearance of the young woman and her 12-year-old daughter. And as the family marked one year since the passing of Idiat Yusuf, the pain of a mother who never got to see her daughter again remains one of the saddest chapters in this story.