“We were sitting together with deceased’s parents, unknown to us that she had fallen into the tank.”

The father of the deceased, the 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 occurred to my brother to ask his wife of the whereabouts of their daughter.