The Edo State Police Command says it has arrested the husband of Mrs Toluige Olokoobi, mother of “mummy calm down” boy, days after news broke that she committed suicide.
Olokoobi was the mother to Oreofeoluwa Lawal-Babalola, the little boy whose video went viral after begging his mother with “Mummy, calm down” in 2020.
Oreofeoluwa became popular on social media platforms after a video went viral of him in tears in an attempt to confidently appeal to his mother, who scolded him.
The video inspired Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the time as he used it to send an Eid-el-Kabir message to Muslims and Lagos residents generally to maintain calm during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The boy, alongside his family, met with the governor, who hailed his courage and composure.
Three years after the incident, sad news hit social media on Tuesday that the boy’s mother had killed herself.
An X user broke the news of Olokoobi’s death on Monday.
The X user, who said he was at the scene of the incident on Monday afternoon tweeted, “The woman in the viral Mummy Calm down video has just committed suicide here in Benin.
“She refused to speak to anyone about her problems. She left three kids for her husband including the popular Mummy Calm Down boy.”
One of the residents of the area also confirmed her death saying the deceased committed suicide in front of her one-year-old son.
She added that the deceased worked as a medicine distributor while her husband worked as taxi driver and car dealer.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson for the Edo State Police Command, Chidi Nwabuzor, confirmed Olokoobi’s death. He said that her husband had been arrested and detained for questioning.
Nwabuzor said the husband reported the matter to the police.
The police spokesperson quoted the husband to have said that “he came home from the market when he saw his wife hanging with rope on her neck”.
Nwabuzor said she was rushed to the hospital and later deposited in a mortuary after she was confirmed dead.
