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Religion in Nigeria always goes to the extreme.Many times people are taken advantage of and led astray in the name of religion.When it takes over you,you lose all sense of reasoning and anything and everything seems possible,some might say this is a good thing while some will say it makes you no different to an illiterate cos you lose all senses of reasoning.How else can you explain the case of this man,who killed his successful wife because a Prophet had told him his wife was using his star,glory,good
fortune or whatever you wanna call it?I thought this nonsense only happens in Nollywood films,but apparently not.The Vanguard newspaper reports this story of the man who has been arrested by the Nigerian police over the death of a middle-aged woman, identified as Silifat Yakubu.She was allegedly killed by her husband, Ismail Yakubu, at Igbele, near Araromi Ale Olorunda Local Council Development Area, along Badagry Expressway in Lagos.
It was gathered that the body of the deceased was found in a small river located at the community’s entrance, where she was supposedly dumped after she was killed.
Ambimbola Sule, a commercial motorcyclist in the area, said:
“Residents in the community woke up on Saturday morning to find the lifeless body of a woman inside the river that leads into Igbele.Initially, people could not identify the person .....
It was gathered that Yakubu the husband, was seen at the scene of the incident several times as residents tried to identify the corpse on Saturday.
According to reports, the deceased’s husband, who was arrested on Sunday, confessed to killing his wife on Friday night because a prophet told him she was using his star.He purportedly dumped the corpse in the river at night, after his attempts to take her far away failed because his bus developed fault. A neighbour, Iya Korede, who lives near the victim’s shop, noted that Silifat was jovial, hardworking and troubled no one.
“Most of the people in the area do not know her husband because he goes early to work and comes back late. But his wife is a very hard working woman. She built the house they live in.“As if that was not enough, she bought a commercial bus for him. What else does he want? If he was tired of the marriage, he should have driven her away instead of killing her.“The world is truly a wicked place. How can a man kill his own wife? The same woman who bore him three male children, for goodness sake? It is only God that will save us.”