“I have no shelter over my head,
my children hardly eat and they are not even in school like their peers,” 48-year-old Ado Bayero’s mistress lamented.
Sullen and distraught, and her
voice trembling, Hauwa Momoh, despite her affiliation with two royal families,
appears to be experiencing hell. She believes the suffering had now intensified
to a level she can no longer bear.
Besides being the daughter of a
former senior traditional ruler in Edo State, the Otaru of Auchi, Ms. Momoh was
the mistress of the immediate past Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, for nearly three
decades, in a lengthy but secret affair with one of Nigeria’s most influential
traditional rulers. Continue below...