A 14-YEAR-OLD girl of Mtendere compound in Kafue has committed suicide after her mother advised her to end a relationship with a Kafue Day Secondary pupil.
District council chairman Gibson Sinkala and the girl’s father, Stanley Ng’andu, confirmed the incident in separate interviews and named the girl as Carol Ng’andu, a grade nine pupil at African Vision of Hope School.
Ng’andu explained that Carol differed with her mother after she told her to end her love affair with a named grade nine pupil because she was too young to be involved in relationships and needed to concentrate on her education.
“Of late my wife, who is the mother of the deceased girl, has been telling our daughter to concentrate on her studies and stop her love affair with a certain boy of the same area. It’s like this did not please the girl and according to her friends, she was heard saying that it was too much of her mother telling her to stop going out with her boyfriend, whom she said she loved too much,” he said.