Homicide in epidemic proportions, By Wole Olaoye
Perhaps we should be studying the link between hard drugs/voodoo and crime more closely, especially with regard to crimes committed by teenagers and other young people in their twenties. We need a scientific approach now more than ever before.
The soul-numbing trend is in your face. Homicide has become our everyday companion. It wasn’t always like this. Life used to be sacred. It was not considered fashionable for acorns to be devoured before they became trees. Now, we are inundated with gory tales of gruesome stabbings, decapitations, gun violence and more. If you turn off the radio, the stories are waiting for you on television; if you refuse to read them in the newspapers, they’ll waylay you on social media. There is no escaping the epidemic of bloodletting sweeping through the land.
Nigeria: Homicide in epidemic proportions, By Wole Olaoye
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January 13, 2021
Princess Odume, the corps member whom the police nabbed for allegedly killing a man, identified as Japhet Akwaowo in Akwa Ibom on Sunday has disclosed the reason for her action; self-defence
The police spokesperson in the state, Odiko Ogbeche-Macdon, who disclosed this on Tuesday, said that Odume claimed Akwaowo threatened to kill her when she refused to oblige his request to undress so that he could have sex with her.
Ogbechie-Macdon said: “She actually killed the young man identified as Akwaowo Japhet. She said she went to buy bean cake, akara, and saw a man that beckoned to her to come over to him. She said she went to meet him, they got talking and she found herself in his house.
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A corps member, Chidimma Odume, who was recently arrested for hacking a man identified as Japhet Akwaowo, to death in Akwa Ibom on Sunday, has revealed the reasons for her actions.
It would be recalled that Chidimma Odume, who graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and currently serving at Bureau of Political and Legislative Affairs, Uyo, was reportedly caught while trying to jump over the fence of the compound to escape after committing the act.
Upon being interrogated by the police, the corps member reportedly said she did it in self-defence.
The police spokesperson in the state, Odiko Ogbeche-Macdon said the corps member claimed Akwaowo threatened to kill her upon her refusal to oblige his request to remove her clothes so that he could have sex with her.