I am tired of begging to eat, my daughter leaves to feed me; I die-90-year-old woman calls out to tolerate Jonathan

Her daughter, Deborah Erema, has been in custody since 2019 with 14 others, following accusations of theft of jewelry by Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. In a heartbreaking video obtained by Saharan Porters, a weakened 90-year-old woman issued a desperate plea for Nigeria’s former first lady, Patience Jonathan, for the release of her daughter, Deborah Erema, who has been illegal for more than five years. The elderly woman, whose health visibly fails, has broken into tears as she lamented her current state of hunger, neglect and isolation. “Nobody is going to feed me, but just her dey gives me. I have no one. I’m just going to beg. I’m a begging now. See me as I am now, ‘she says in the emotional footage. “Please let my daughter let go, make her go looking for food for me. No, she gives me food. I beg Tire. I’m not tired. Let me leave my pikin for me. If I die now, which bury me. No just her get me. ‘ Her daughter, Deborah Erema, has been in custody since 2019 with 14 others, following accusations of theft of jewelry by Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Deborah Erema and the other accused, mostly domestic staff who worked for the Jonathans, were arrested in connection with the alleged theft of jewelry belonging to the former first lady. Despite spending more than five years behind bars, they were not convicted in any court of law, Saharara Porters heard. The list of detainees includes Williams Alami, Vincent Olabiyi, Ebuka Cosmos, John Dashe, Tamunocuro Abaku, Sahabi Lima, Emmanuel Aginwa, Precious Kingsley, Tamunosiki Achese, Salomi Warebok, Sunday Reginal, Boma Oba, Emka Benson. These individuals remained of their families, careers and lives – all under the shadow of unproven allegations orchestrated by someone who once swung at the highest levels of Nigerian power. The unfair detention has already cost Deborah expensive. Her daughter, who was unmarried to her elderly grandmother, recently passed away after a long -term illness. “She had so much to wear. She was a single mother with two or three children. The burden of caring for the children, her sick grandmother, and to worry about her mother in prison, was just too much, “a source familiar with the situation, told Saharan Porters. “She finally got sick and died. It was a slow, painful death, exacerbated by the hopelessness of it all. “