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  • ‘Whose Business, if I Marry My Son?’ – Michael West

    ‘Whose Business, if I Marry My Son?’ – Michael West

    By Michael West

    Things considered to be sacrilegious in the society have now adorned the toga of norms. I don’t see the behaviour as a trend of civilization, rather, as abnormality and absurdity of a maddening dimension in a crazy world filled with contempt, immorality and lewdness.

    I didn’t plan to revisit or continue with last week’s topic but some weird responses provoked this follow up. An online media operator had called me earlier that the topic should have a follow up because there are other areas that needed to be looked into. His suggestion was appreciated but I didn’t think along his line until early this week when a man called to express a bizarre opinion about the issue.

    “My son is a great dad and also a great boyfriend to me. This all started when I realized that I was having feelings for him, and I decided to have a one-on-one talk with him.”

    He said “I really enjoyed your article. It was well written and quite on point but you failed to consider the other side of the coin. It is agreed that it is morally wrong for a man to have sex with his daughter; yes, but how about women that sleep with their own sons? I have a similar case at hand now that I don’t know how to handle it. Like you rightly pointed out, there are cases that have nothing to do with rituals or mental case. They are cases premised on economic and security decisions.

    “A neighbour is involved with his biological daughter. His wife wanted to make a case out of the situation but he told his wife that it was going to be a shared shame to all of them as a family. Besides, he said it is not peculiar to him. His wife, he said, should have asked to know what pushed him into the affair rather than trying to bring the roof down on everybody’s head as if he has committed a strange crime. His reason may not be reasonable to some people but it is to himself. He didn’t want his daughter to experience heartbreak or agony of being jilted by “unserious guys” who parade themselves as suitors. According to him, his daughter would have been “tasted” by only God knows the number of men and at the end of the day, dumped! He said he had spent so much to raise and sponsor her education to the university level, and as pretty as she is, he could commit murder if any “hit-and-run” guy jilts his daughter after a season of a so-called relationship. And to avoid the possible tragedy, he decided to “reap and enjoy the fruit” of his labour quietly.” Wow!!! I couldn’t feign amazement listening to the caller.

     

    This reminds me of a woman in Malawi who married her own son for a similar reason. According to media reports, the Malawian Mother married her own son saying she spent a lot of money on his education. The 47-Year-old woman, Memory Njemani, married her 30-year-old biological son for the reason that she spent all her life savings on his education. The news broke out in 2018.

     

    Also in Zimbabwe, a woman and her son have done the unthinkable as they fell in love with each other. They later got married since the mom was six months pregnant and was expecting her son’s baby. The woman, Mbereko, (40), who became a widow 12 years ago, lived with her first child, Farai Mbereko (23). The incestuous mothers are still married to their biological sons and they are staying together.

     

    Another woman from an undisclosed location made public her amorous affair, in fact, marriage with her 14-year-old biological son. As at the time she posted the news on Facebook, she was six months pregnant for his son. The edited version of her Facebook post announcing the development reads:

     

    “For those who don’t know, me and my 15 year old son had a baby last year together. I had sex with him when he was 14 years old. The baby came out fine. Just to let you know I also have three (3) daughters who are thirteen(13) fourteen(14) and sixteen(16).

     

    “My son is a great dad and also a great boyfriend to me. This all started when I realized that I was having feelings for him, and I decided to have a one-on-one talk with him. I told him ‘mommy loves you more than what it means to just be a mommy to you’ I also told him that “mommy likes you just like how a girl from school likes you.’

     

    “I explained everything to him and got him to understand and he felt the same way as I did as he began to ask questions. He asked “so, does that mean that we can kiss and hold hands like boyfriend and girlfriend?” I told him yes, and even sex.”

     

    In view of the growing fad of incest in many homes, our generation is at competition with accursed and destroyed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Added to these abominable relationships is homosexuality. This is aside cases of mothers-in-law sleeping with their sons-in-law while some had been reported to be pregnant in the process. What a world!

     

    Most people belong to one religion or the other, and none, to my best of knowledge, entertains incest as an acceptable sexual rectitude in family life. Even traditionalists fiercely abhor it as a taboo with grave consequences. How it has become festered quietly in many homes across religious, racial and ethnic divides is a question begging for an answer.

     

    In all of this, what’s the way out? This is a social malady and a big family problem. For a man to climb on top of his own mother like a he-goat is bewildering. Well, mothers-in-law are discreetly enjoying romantic actions with their sons-in-law, too, but this is not so rampart in our clime, yet. It is a common ‘game’ in the western world. I hope before it is fully imported into our space, sanity would have prevailed. Is it possible to legislate against the aberration? If yes, who will risk the family name in disrepute in public and media space? How about the issue of stigmatization? What will the penalty be for those found culpable?

     

    However, a lawyer, Mrs Olusayo Adeleye, said incest is considered a criminal act in Nigeria and relevant laws must be enforced to deter potential offenders. “The Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act 2015 in Section 25, criminalises incest and prescribes a minimum term of 10 years imprisonment without an option of fine,” she said. Quoting various laws against incest and described it as a sexual act that can be said to be against the law of nature, Adeleye urged the government to pass the Sexual Offences Act (Amendment) Bill 2019 in order to protect minors and under aged against sexual exploitation. She further encouraged state governments to domesticate laws criminalising incest.

     

    Addressing these odd cases requires the will on the part of the government as some of the custodians of culture and supposed moral agents are also guilty of the same evil. Like a woman who is suspected to be involved with her son quipped, “whose business is it if I choose to marry my son?” After all, it is a free world, and everybody will account for their own good and evil deeds but it behoves us to instil moral values and sexual sanity in this amoral generation.

     

    Do have a restful weekend.

     

     

    • West wrote via

    Email: mikeawe@yahoo.co.uk

    08059964446

    08035304268

  • How my mother prayed about my anger issues for 15 years ― Keppy Ekpenyong

    How my mother prayed about my anger issues for 15 years ― Keppy Ekpenyong

    Veteran actor, Keppy Ekpenyong has averred that his mother prayed about his anger issues for 15 years.

    The award winning role interpreter made this known in a chat with Punch.

    According to him: “I know that for about fifteen years, my mother’s prayers when we made New Year resolution was that, ‘I pray that Keppy manages his temper more.’ So, I began to learn from the very first years and I started to control my temper. I want to present myself as a very happy person, even when I am not happy. It is a deliberate attempt; it started out being deliberate, but now, it is a part of me.

    “My temper was very bad at the time; it was vicious. Now, it is in the past and it is safer as it is in the past. I had friends who used to tell me, ‘Keppy manage your temper; do not lose your temper. Nobody wants it.’ So I grew through that era.”

     

    Speaking further, he noted that fatherhood helped him overcome his anger issues as he learnt to be more lenient
    “What encouraged me was when I became a father. I began to tolerate more things that I ordinarily would not have. Tolerance is a hallmark of maturity and growing up,” he said.

     

  • Love gone sour: Man burns ex-lover, two children to death in Ibadan

    Love gone sour: Man burns ex-lover, two children to death in Ibadan

    A man, Ahmed Saka, on Wednesday in Ibadan, Oyo State carried out his threat to kill his ex-lover and end his own life for ending relationship with him.

    He set his ex-lover’s room ablaze at about 1:50am, killing the mother and two children.

    Four others sustained severe burns.

    But Saka himself was not spared, as he later succumbed to injuries he sustained in the fire.

    The woman, Mutiat Oladele, and Saka, who lived in the same house at Shogoye area, Idi Arere in Ibadan, had been lovers before she told him she was no longer interested in the relationship.

    A credible source said Saka was not happy with the severance of the relationship and he threatened that he would kill the woman and end his own life too if she didn’t rescind her decision.

    Apart from Mutiat and Saka, two children who lost their lives were identified as Ramon Sarumi (10) and Abiodun Oladele (seven).

    Those injured in the fire were Bisola Oladele, Lateef Sarumi, Aishat Sarumi and Wosilat Sarumi.

    The matter was reported at the Mapo Police Station by one of the neighbours, Olaide Aliu, at about 5:10am on Wednesday.

    The Divisional Police Officer in charge of Mapo and other detectives visited the scene and evacuated the corpses from the scene to the mortuary of the State Hospital, Adeoyo, Ibadan for autopsy.

    The injured persons were taken to the Anglican Diocese Hospital, Molete for prompt medical treatment.

    Police spokesman in the state, CSP Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the story.

    Fadeyi said investigation had commenced into the matter.

  • Police rescue twin babies locked up by mother for three days without food

    Police rescue twin babies locked up by mother for three days without food

    The Police command in Ekiti on Monday rescued two-year old twin babies after they were locked up in a room by their mother for three days.

    A statement in Ado-Ekiti by Mr Sunday Abutu, the command’s Public Relations Officer, said the incident happened in Igbara-odo, Ekiti South-West Local Government Area of the state.

    Abutu said the command acted on a distress call by a good Samaritan at about 9:45 hours and rescued the babies who were without food for three days.

    He said a lady, who was later identified as Joy Fatoba of Igbara-odo, locked up her twin babies in her room and even threatened to kill them should anyone compel her to open the door.

    According to him, the Command’s Rapid Response Squad (RRS), upon the receipt of the information, swung into action, rushed to the scene and tactically rescued the two kids.

    He said upon interrogation Fatoba narrated that the father of her kids left her for Calabar during pregnancy and had refused to return to take care of her and the kids till date.

    “She told her interrogator that she could no longer fend for herself and her two kids recently because her hair dressing work started failing,” Abutu added.

    The Police image maker said the two-year old kids appeared unhealthy when they were rescued and could neither walk nor stand on their own due to dehydration and undernutrition.

    He said the twins upon their rescue were immediately rushed to the hospital for medical examination and treatment.

    Abutu said the command would ensure the safety of the kids and their mother and that investigation to unravel the circumstances of the incident had already commenced.

    He used the opportunity to extend the command’s appreciation to the good Samaritan for volunteering the useful and timely information that led to the rescuing of the babies.

    Abutu enjoined the residents to always and quickly draw the attention of the nearest Police Station to any suspicious happenings in their locality or call 08062335577.

  • TRENDING: I cut my mother’s neck with cutlass after pastor called her a witch

    TRENDING: I cut my mother’s neck with cutlass after pastor called her a witch

    30-year-old woman, Blessing Jimoh, has been arrested by men of the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly killing her mother, Ijeoma Odo.

    Blessing said she killed her mother with a cutlass after a Pastor said her mother was a witch.

    She was paraded alongside other criminals.

    The Pastor is said to be on the run.

    Blessing said she has four children and committed the crime while they were working at the farm Ile-Iluji area.

    She claimed to be mentally unstable when she committed the crime.

    According to her, “It was something doing me that make me kill my mother. I am not happy with what I did.

    “I cut her neck with a cutlass. It was a Pastor that said she was witch and l went to beg her. My mother is from Enugu State. We have been looking for the Pastor but we have not seen him.”

    Ondo Police Commissioner, Bolaji Salami, said the suspect would soon be charged to court.

  • Mother, son arrested for N50m online scam

    Mother, son arrested for N50m online scam

    Operatives of the EFCC in Lagos have arrested Ibeh Theophilus Uche, a.k.a Keeanu Reeves and his mother for their alleged involvement in a N50 million computer-related fraud.

    The 28-year-old suspect, who claims to be CEO of 10 Kobo Wine Place in Ikotun, Lagos, was arrested in his room at Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel, Victoria Island.

    The arrest followed credible intelligence reports about his crimes.Ibeh Theophilus Uche and his shameless mum

    During interrogation, Uche presented himself variously as movie star Keenau Reeeves, Rachael Armstrong, Rebekah Schwarzenberger, Keanu Private, Elizabeth Hortman and Stefan Paulson.

    He confessed to being into Bitcoin investment scam, romance scam and identity theft.

    The suspect also confessed to have defrauded his victims to the tune of about N50m, since he started the criminal activities in 2020.

    Investigations revealed that the suspect had been using a First Bank account belonging to his mother, who is one of his accomplices, to launder the proceeds of his crimes.

    Items recovered from the suspect are one iPhone 11 Pro Max; one iPhone 12 pro max; two MacBook Pro laptops; a PlayStation 5; an iPad and a small Nokia touch phone.

    Others are a Mercedes Benz S550 2015 Sedan car and a Lexus RX 350 SUV 2016, among other incriminating items.

    Uche and the mum will soon be charged to court, said Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC spokesman.

  • JUST IN: OAU staff hangs self after sending suicide text to mother, wife, children

    JUST IN: OAU staff hangs self after sending suicide text to mother, wife, children

    Tragedy struct on Thursday at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, after a staff of the institution named Fisayo Oyeniyi, hanged himself in his residence after sending suicide text to his mother, wife and children.

    According to report by The Nation, Oyeniyi who was one of the armed guards in the security department left his working place for his house around Kanmi bus stop, at Ifewara road, Ile-Ife to commit the suicide.

    Oyeniyi was said to have sent text messages to his mother, wife and his two children informing them that he was not interested in living again.

    A source in the area named Tolani, said, “the incident happened around noon. I saw people rushing to his apartment to get to see for themselves to be sure of what Mr. Oyeniyi has done to himself.

    “We saw where he hung himself, dangling on the rope inside. He has been buried. This is so sad.”

    Another source said, he committed suicide after two hours that he sent the suicide text to his family.

    The public relation officer of OAU, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, confirmed the incident. He said Oyeniyi left office after he sent a suicide text to his mother, wife and children.

    Meanwhile, the spokesperson of Osun State Police Command, Yemisi Opalola, said the matter was yet to be reported to the police.

    More details later…

  • Herdsmen allegedly invade Sunday Igboho mother’s residence

    Herdsmen allegedly invade Sunday Igboho mother’s residence

    Suspected herdsmen on Sunday allegedly invaded the residence of mother of Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho.

    Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, confirmed this on Sunday night via his Twitter handle.

    He wrote: “Chief Sunday Adeyemo’s mother’s house at Igboho was invaded by three Fulani men this evening around 7:54pm.

    “Two of them escaped, one is currently held at Igboho police station.”

    A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode also confirmed the development on his twitter page.

    He stated: “Three terrorists were caught in Sunday Igboho’s mothers house and not two. One was caught and two escaped.

    “I just spoke to Sunday Igboho and he told me that two foreign Fulani terrorists were apprehended in his mother’s home in Igboho, Oyo state this evening.

    “Their mission was to harm Mama. One of them escaped whilst the other is with the police. Those that sent them are playing with fire.”

    He added: “I am appealing to those who are behind these provocations against his person & reckless attacks to desist from this nonsense.

    “Sunday is a heroic figure in the South West and by far the most powerful, vocal and popular figure in Yorubaland today.

    “Harming him or his family members will not augur well for the peace and stability of our nation.”

  • SAD! Mother of two dies during sex romp with married lover

    SAD! Mother of two dies during sex romp with married lover

    Tears, sorrow describes the atmosphere in the family of the late 37-year old mother of two children, Lugas who died in the house of her lover during sexual intercourse.

    The police command in Adamawa State on Friday confirmed her.The police also confirmed the arrest of the lover, a certain Lekan Agboola, a telecommunication engineer as part of inquiries to ascertain the actual cause of her death.

    The state police spokesperson, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, who spoke with newsmen in Yola, said Agboola was being detained at the command’s criminal investigation department.

    Agboola said Lugas had been his girlfriend for more than three years, adding that he has a wife and two children living in Lagos.

    Narrating the circumstances surrounding the death of his partner, Agboola said he called the late Lugas to meet him at home.

    He said it was while they were having sex that he noticed she suddenly became stiff.

    He said, “On February 24, 2021, around 9am, I called her on the phone and asked her to see me because we had not seen each other for some time. When she arrived, we started having fun and she suddenly collapsed.

    ‘’When I realised she was not breathing, I then called one of my female friends and told her what happened. She advised me to take her to a hospital where she was confirmed dead.”

    The family of the late woman said they suspected foul play, urging the police to get to the root of the case.

    In the same vein, a relation, Bridget Lucas, said she was at home with her late sister on February 24 when Agboola called her on the phone.

    She said she later got a call from Agboola, less than an hour later, notifying her of Lugas’ death.

    She added, ‘’I appeal to the police, Adamawa State Government, civil society organisations and well-meaning Nigerians to ensure justice for Andi and not let the matter be swept under the carpet.”

     

  • Inheritance sharing: Late Niger governor’s son drags mother to Sharia Court

    Inheritance sharing: Late Niger governor’s son drags mother to Sharia Court

    Umar Kure, one of the sons of the late ex-Niger governor Abdulkadir Kure, has taken his mother Senator Zainab Kure to the Sharia Court of Appeal, Niger State.

    Kure is challenging the distribution of his father’s estate by an Upper Sharia Court/Administrator.

    He listed the widow, three other children of the deceased and the estate of his late father as respondents in a motion on notice filed as No SCA/NS/CV/O4/2020 against the decision of the court/administrator in Suit No USC/MK/CV/139.

    The applicant is seeking an order of the Sharia Court of Appeal for extension of time to seek leave to appeal, another order for leave of the court to appeal and an order for extension of time within which to file the notice of appeal.

    In a 16-paragraph affidavit in support of the motion, a person named Blessing Abraham deposed that “the appellant is dissatisfied with the decision of the trial court/administrator in the distribution of the estate in question.”

    She noted that the appellant and his counsel were not present on the date the purported distribution was made and that he was not aware of the sharing of the estate on December 11, 2019 until he was served the decision on January 27, 2020, thereby elapsing the 30 days within which he could appeal.

    Umar is also challenging the distribution of his father’s estate without payment of all debts of the deceased, adding that he was not given fair hearing in the distribution of the estate.