Aged siblings- Ibijoke Apena and Janeth Eruwayo- who are living in a dingy one-room apartment, their case is a different kettle of fish. They have been abandoned by their children and relations. At 8, Amusan Street, Rogo, along Iju-Ishaga Road, Lagos State, where they live, the two sisters have become nuisance to other tenants. Though they are from Jakpa in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, they have spent more than 60 years outside Delta. Their condition of living is simply appalling as where they defecate, urinate and do so many things is where they eat and sleep. The odour oozing out of their room has become a source of concern to co-tenants who now avoid them like plague. The odour from their apartment fills the entire place, causing people around to throw up. Even when it was obvious that their children had forsaken them, they cocooned themselves in the world of pretence, saying “our children have not abandoned us. Don’t speak ill of our children.” ...