SADIQ SARUMI
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Elijah age five, the last of three siblings lives in Agwan Kwaso, Tunga-Maje an indigenous town within the city of Abuja with a landscape view of the beautiful nature of Abuja. He attends LEA nursery & primary school, Agwan Kwaso with his immediate elder brother, Chris age eight who is in Pry 3.
Many of the children in Tunga Maje falls within the ages of 5 & 15.
Elijah was born couple of months after his father died in the year 2014, in Yoruba where I come from the name Babatunde (which means 'father returns') would have been given to him.Elijah bares a significant resemblance with his late Father so he is so much of a consolation to his widowed mother Naomi Ayuba 28years, who also doubles as the mother and Father to her 3 boys.She is doing amazingly well I can tell from the ambitions and intentions of her sons.Caleb who is the eldest of her sons already molds local bricks with clay soils with the intent of building a house for their beautiful mother on a land she owns.Elijah and his immediate sibling are unfortunately amongst the hundreds of kids who attends a community school built with zincs and has two rooms as classes, with school materials in short supply. Though the school has a permanent site in construction, things can be better for Elijah and his peers in Tunga- Maje before they finally relocate. -
A happy portrait of Elijah 5yo. at the LEA nursery & primary school Agwan- Kwaso permanent site, Abuja.
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Naomi happily exchanges gaze with her last born Elijah while the two boys stares at her excitedly.
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Elijah with a passport photograph of his late father.
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Naomi in her room doing mother duties.
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Chris with a photo of his late Dad and Mum during his naming ceremony.
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Portrait of Naomi Ayuba looking back (a lot was going through her mind I could tell).
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Portrait of Caleb with the bricks he molded to build a house for his mum.
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Happy Portrait of Naomi Ayuba 28yo widowed mother of 3 sons.
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Elijah against the backdrop of his school
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Elijah and his peers at the LEA nursery & primary school Agwan- Kwaso permanent site.
