Ibadan stampede: Mother of Ooni’s ex-wife, Prophetess Naomi protest murder charge against her daughter, beg Nigerians to intervene
The mother of Prophetess Naomi Ogunseyi, the ex-wife of Ooni of Ife, is begging Nigerians to help her daughter who is currently facing charges over the death of 35 children at a funfair she had in Ibadan, Oyo state last week.
Recall that a Chief Magistrate Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Tuesday , December 24, ordered the remand of Naomi and two others in connection with the stampede at Bashorun Islamic High School.
Naomi sponsored a children fun fair in Ibadan that sadly ended in a stampede leaving 35 children dead.
In a video shared on social media , the distraught mother of Prophetess Naomi appealed to Nigerians to come to her daughter’s aid.
‘’Please help me! It was good my daughter went to Ibadan to do. It is not today that she has been conducting such programmes. She has been doing it for over ten years now. She goes about doing good to children, the elderly and even pregnant women. I empathize with you all that lost your children.
“Please people come to my aid! Do not allow them throw Naomi into the prison. Please have mercy on me! Please help to make them free Noami my child. She came to do good. She is very innocent! Very innocent! Please help me! Please help me free my child. She does not know anything!”
Naomi’s mother explained that the stampede took place at about 6.30am, hours before the funfair was to start, wondering why she would be charged for murder.
According to Naomi’s mother, her daughter and other defendants were charged to court ‘secretly’ and one of the counts against her is murder.
‘’My child is not a k!ller. She was only trying to help,” the mother wailed.