Most Nigeria men are out of control. Beating your wife or girlfriend is a greater offense but these days the men have gone beyond beating they now kill. What is happening to our generation? Read the confession and stories of some shameless men.
STORY NO. 1 (JILTED CULTIST RAPES AND KILLS GIRLFRIEND)
The late Rafiat Akinyemi
The
suspect, Anuoluwapo Akinloye, 25, who lives at Segun Kehinde Street,
Ogijo in Ikorodu, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, allegedly raped and
stabbed Rafiat Akinyemi to death because she broke up with him.
According
to the victim's mother, Mrs. Rashidat Akinyemi, the girl, a devoted
Muslim, had at the beginning of their relationship told the suspect that
she can't marry him because of his religion but the suspect converted
to Islam and changed his name to Ismail and started going to the mosque.
The
widow, who lost her husband two years ago, said the alleged cultist
even applied for a post in the security department of the mosque but the
mosque was still considering his offer before he carried out the
heinous act.
Mrs. Akinyemi said when her daughter discovered
that the suspect was a cultist, she ended the relationship but the
suspect refused to let her go.
Mrs. Akinyemi said: "A few weeks
before her death, Rafiat told me that the man threatened her life when
she told him to keep away from her after discovering that he was a cult
member.
"I called Anuoluwapo and talked to him like a mother. I
told him to take it easy with her and allow her concentrate on her
education. Another member of the family also called the suspect and told
him that marriage is not by force and that he should stop threatening
her. That was just three days before the incident. We did not know that
he planned to kill my daughter."
The widow alleged that on 30 April, she went to the market on Lagos Island and left Rafiat in the house.
The suspected cultist, Anuoluwapo Akinloye
She
said she instructed Rafiat to open their shop in front of their house
as soon as she finished her house chores but when the mother came back
around 2 p.m. she found out that the shop was still closed.
Mrs. Akinyemi said she was surprised and went inside the house to challenge her daughter but met her dead in their parlour.
She
said she screamed and shouted for help. And when she looked closer at
her daughter, she discovered that she was raped and stabbed to death.
The incident was reported at the Ogijo Police Station and a team of policemen later came to remove her corpse.
Mrs.
Akinyemi disclosed that Anuoluwapo initially told the police that he
did not act alone and that five others participated in the crime.
The
mother said Anuoluwapo confessed that one person stayed at the entrance
of the house while the remaining five went inside. His accomplices, she
alleged, held the victim down while Anuoluwapo raped her and later
stabbed her to death.
Mrs. Akinyemi appealed to the police to bring Anuoluwapo and his accomplices to book over the killing of her daughter.
P.M.NEWS
learnt that the suspect has been transferred to the Ogun State Police
CID Headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta, for interrogation.
STORY NO. 2 (Mathias Eze, Ex-commissioner Kills Wife Over Stew)
When Mathias Eze of Umu-Aji village in Umuida, and Patricia
Ossai of Imufu, both in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu
State got married, little did Patricia know that her heartthrob would
end her sojourn on earth in the most gruesome manner 16 years after their marital union.
But on Saturday, July 21, 2012, Mathias, a former Commissioner in the Enugu State Independent Electoral (ENSIEC), tragically ended the union
that had produced six lovely children with an alleged gunshot over his
wife’s failure to prepare stewed rice for the day’s supper.
The
father of the deceased, Elder Alphonsus Ossai, now a shadow of himself,
told Sunday Sun the tale of his daughter’s forced death as was narrated
to him by the late Patricia’s 15-year-old daughter, Uju, who witnessed
the incident that night.
“On Saturday, July 21, 2012, at about
8pm, according to my grand-daughter and Patricia’s first child, because I
was not there, he (Mathias) came back with a grass- cutter and asked
his wife to prepare it, and left the house again. My daughter cooked the
meat and when he came back again at about 10 pm and demanded for the
cooked meat, she gave it to him. He asked her to give him rice and stew
but my daughter told him she didn’t cook rice. What she cooked was
‘Otipiri,’ a local delicacy made from maize. “He flared up and
questioned why she didn’t prepare rice and stew with the meat; but my
daughter pleaded that she had started cooking the maize delicacy when he
returned with the meat. He then went to his second wife who hails from
Ibagwa in Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area, and asked her what she
cooked for the night and that one told him that she prepared yam
porridge.
“At that point, he became livid and threatened that he
was going to shoot two of them if they didn’t go back to the kitchen to
prepare rice and stew that night. The two women pleaded with him to
understand that it was too late in the night and there was no more
firewood in the house. Besides, it rained heavily that night. They
thought they had placated him and tried to recharge their handsets, but
he warned them not to do so since they refused to cook stewed rice for
him. They didn’t take his threat seriously.
“It was at that stage
that he dashed into his room, came out with a double-barrel gun and
pursued them. The second wife was the first to see him with the gun and
she alerted my daughter but he had already closed in on them. The other
wife ran out of the compound while my daughter hid at a corner of their
kitchen because at that time, the generator had been switched off, so
the entire compound was enveloped in darkness. But he quickly embarked
on a search mission with the first son by his first wife who had died
many years ago.
“He had given up the search and was going back
when his son, who had finished secondary school, spotted my daughter and
alerted him. He called his father to come and see the ‘idiot,’
referring to his father’s wife, my daughter. The man came there and
aimed at my daughter who was then pleading profusely with him to spare
her life but all her entreaties fell on deaf ears as he fired at her
killing her instantly.”
The distraught father, who fought hard to
control tears rolling down his cheeks as he spoke, alleged that when
Mathias who works with the Enugu Sate Post Primary School Management
Board (PPSMB), saw that he had shot his wife dead, he put her inside the
boot of his car and drove to a near-by hospital in Ogurute.
According
to him, the suspect told the hospital workers, that armed robbers came
to his house and while he was exchanging gunfire with them, stray bullet
hit his wife down.
Patricia’s younger sister, Edith, and her
elder brother, Johnson corroborated their father’s account of the
incident and wondered why an infinitesimal issue such as failure to cook
a particular meal could lead to such a dastardly act.
Edith
said: “I feel terribly sad that a man could be that bestial to his own
beloved wife; the bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh as the Bible
tells us. It beat my imagination. It was a rude shock when I heard the
news.”
Also in a fury-filled tone, Johnson said: “I feel very sad
that my sister is lying cold in the mortuary. I live in Lokoja in Kogi
State, but I am home because my sister’s husband shot and killed her in
cold blood. My sister begged and begged that her life be spared but he
adamantly shot and wasted her life just like that. She had six children
for him; four boys and two girls. I am very sad because I can’t see why
he should be that bloodthirsty. I feel that government should mete out
appropriate punishment to him to serve as a deterrent.”
When
Sunday Sun visited the country-home of the suspect at Umu-Aji in Umuida,
the house was deserted. Checks revealed that he had been taken to the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID), at the Police Headquarters in
Enugu.
Women who live in the neighbourhood confirmed the incident
and described Mathias as a very harsh man who didn’t allow his wives to
relate with other people. They said his wives rarely came out adding
that he was a male chauvinist who believed that women should only be
seen and not be heard.
Another native who preferred anonymity,
described him as, “a very wicked man who derives pleasure in inflicting
pains on people.” He alleged that the suspect once threatened to drown
his late first wife because she denied him sex.
Also, a young
lady in the community narrated how a girl he had married, ran away and
was later forced to cough out N150,000 that the suspect claimed, as
expenses he incurred during the marriage ceremony.
“The girl had
to take up a paid employment and started paying back until she paid to
the last kobo. It’s just that the girl is now in Lagos; otherwise, I
would have asked you to go to her to hear more about the man. He is
wicked and people are afraid of him because he has money.”
Efforts by Sunday Sun correspondent to speak with Mr Eze drew blank as the police did not allow him to see the suspect.
But
investigation revealed that Eze gave two different accounts on how he
allegedly killed his wife. He was said to have told the staffers of the
hospital where he took his wife’s corpse to, that he killed her in error
during a gun duel with robbers that attacked his house. It was also
gathered that the suspect later told the police at Ogrute that he
noticed strange movement inside the bush behind his compound and because
there was no light, he suspected that it could be an armed robber, and
fired his gun only to discover that he had killed his wife.
When the State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu, was contacted on phone, he confirmed the incident.
“We
are aware of the incident that involved one Mathias Eze who was alleged
to have shot and killed his wife. I can assure you that investigations
are on-going and we shall get to the bottom of the matter. The police
would do everything necessary to ensure that justice was done at the end
of the day”, he said.
She must have been very eager to meet her parents!
According to photographer Emily Robinson, it was 'no more than a minute' between this photo and when Sienna was delivered
One photo that Robinson took shows the emotion over Joe's face in the moments after his daughter's birth.
