PARENTING: TRAGEDY IN OWERRI AS TWO YEAR OLD GIRL DROWNS IN WATER STORAGE TANK

2-year-old Adaugo Ibe, one of the grandchildren in the Ibe family in Aboha Ohii, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State is said to have mysteriously drowned in a 15-feet underground tank that had been built to collect rain water for domestic use in the Ibe compound. It is suspected that she was pushed in by a yet-to-be identified woman.



Adaugo is said to have been on a visit to her grandfather. She had been playing with the daughters of another family member, Izuoma Ibe, whose wife has been fingered in the death of the girl.

Adaugo's father and elder brother of Izuoma Ibe had come to settle a family matter between his wife and their mother.
'Our mother and my senior brother's wife had been at loggerheads since she was married more than two years ago, and they came home from Egbu in Owerri, to see how to settle the matter when the incident happened.'  Ibe said.

Izuoma had bought two packets of cheese balls for the late Adaugo and his daughter while other members of the family sat at the front of the house to discuss how to resolve the lingering feud, shortly before the incident.

'As we were sitting in the frontage discussing how to resolve the quarrel between our mother and my senior brother's wife, it occured to my brother to ask his wife of the whereabouts of their daughter'.