Lagos-raised siblings stranded with corpse of mother after failing to trace ancestral home in Kogi
Bottom: The car they were travelling in, parked by the roadside in Ageva.
Three Lagos-raised Okene, Kogi State indigenes, honouring the wish of their sick mother to take her home, were left stranded after the woman died along the way.
The siblings reportedly only know the general area in Okene where their family home is, but have never been there physically.
The story was posted on Facebook by a chieftain of the All People’s Congress (APC), Joe Igbokwe, on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
According to him, the siblings got to Kogi without any incident. But trouble struck when they got to a town called Ageva in the Okene Local Government Area of the state, and their sick mother breathed her last.
The confused siblings reportedly parked by the roadside for a long time, contemplating what to do.
They were intimidated by the prospect of carrying a dead body in the car into town to trace their family home.
The strange spectacle reportedly attracted villagers who soon realised the predicament of the siblings.
Some elders of the community reportedly offered to give the siblings a burial site to bury their mother so they could return to Lagos.
One of the pictures of the incident shared shows the lifeless body of the aged woman already offloaded from the car onto a makeshift wooden stretcher by the roadside for onward transportation to the donated burial site.
Igbokwe used the story to emphasise the importance of allowing children to visit their ancestral homes.
The story has generated a lot of reactions, with many confessing that they also do not know their ancestral homes.
Many of them, however, said they have no reason to take their parents’ bodies to their ancestral homes when there are burial sites in Lagos.
Sharon Dinshak wrote that a similar incident happened in her street when a woman died and her children began to make frantic moves to link up with their relatives who could help them trace their home in the village.
She hinted that they did not even have the direct contacts of the relatives and had to resort to the use of Facebook to get contacts.
Tomike George said that from her experience in her line of work, there are women who married into different tribes and refuse to visit the families of their husbands.
“There are some mothers here in Lagos with 3 to 4 children who don’t know and have not stepped into the family they married into”, she said.
She recounted her experience with a woman she encountered in Oshodi/Isolo who married a Calabar man, but refused to visit his in-laws in the village.
According to her, the woman had four children for her man, but has not taken the children to their father’s village once.
George said the woman’s second child is already in secondary school, but has never taken the child or his siblings to their village once.
She said such a person has failed to realise that life is not everlasting, and a time will come when the children will need to locate their father’s house.
