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BY FELIX ABUGU

For 20 years, she lived in America, 10 of them as a single parent who was abandoned with her three kids. Last month, she decided to visit home with her daughter and two sons, who were all coming to their fatherland for the first time in their lives. Barely 24 hours later, she was murdered in her father’s house, in rather very troubling circumstances. Was it a case of premeditated murder or armed robbery?
“MY mom is dead. My hard working, loving and caring mother has died. I don’t want this to be true but it is…She suffered a horrible death; she didn’t deserve to die that way.
“My mom hadn’t been back to her country in over 19 years. She was finally able to go, and took my brothers and I with her (it was our first time ever being here).
“Every day, she would talk about Nigeria; she would always tell us about Nigeria. She just wanted to visit her family that she hadn’t seen in so long and show us her country. She bought so many gifts for her family and had been preparing for this trip for a while.
“We arrived at our family’s home (our grand parents’ home in Ihiala, Anambra State ) at almost 12 midnight. On June 3, 2007, just the next day of our arrival, this terrible thing happened…” (more…)