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COVID-19 LOCKDOWN AFFAIR: Man impregnates housemaid while wife was stuck in Dubai on business trip
MERCY
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected different people in so many different ways. For some, it is the loss of the family’s breadwinner, while for others it is the loss of their jobs or businesses.
But for 40-year-old business woman, Mercy Ugba, the merciless pandemic has taken away her marriage. At the onset of the pandemic, before the global travel restrictions, the businesswoma, quckily dashed off to Dubai on a business trip. But what she thought would be a shprt business trip turned out a long-drawn trip following the restrictions on movement imposed by the government of the United Arab Emirates.
Unfortunately, while longed for a return to her home, her husband found comfort in the arms of their housemaid. The longer the restriction was prolonged, the deeper the love affair between her husband and the maid grew. By the time she found her way out of Dubai and landed in Nigeria, she had found herself on the reserve bench in the match of romance and lovemaking.
Mercy, a holder of the Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Benue State University, Makurdi, said her husband, 42-year-old Paul Ajuma, looked every bit a complete gentleman when they first met as fellow students in the school, where the latter was a student of Accounting, and they graduated the same year.
After graduation, she said, they both joined the United Bank for Africa (UBA), where they worked in the marketing department but left after three years to run a business of their own.
They, however, did not have a child until they were 12 years in marriage and were blessed with a baby girl.
She said: “We pulled our resources together and I started the business of selling high quality wrappers to politicians, business executives, bankers as well as civil servants.
“After some time, I started going to Dubai to buy expensive and quality materials
“I then told my husband, who had also left the banking job that why didn’t we use the proceeds of our business to buy a plot of land in Lafia (Nasarawa State capital) and build a house, because we were looking at settling in Lafia due to the fact that cost of living is low there.
“He bought into the idea and we were able to get a land for N1 million. I started sending money into his account for the building while I concentrated on running the business.
“You see, I got married to Paul because I was under pressure from my parents and friends who had gotten married early. And when I met him in school, he seemed to me as a gentle and good man. He was meek, intelligent and caring, so I was intrigued by his ingenuity.
“If we had dated for long, I would probably have discovered some of the traits he is exhibiting now.
“We had gotten married before I realised that he is such a man that would sleep with anything in skirt. He has neither class nor taste. He toasts women anyhow.
“But in spite of all this, I knew that pulling out of the marriage was not the best option.”
So, Mercy endured life with Paul and providence smiled on her and the business began to flourish. But she realised that she needed a house help to sustain the running up and down for the business to keep moving.
“Dorcas completed her secondary education while she was with us in Abuja, Gwagwalada to be precise,” Mercy said.
“I am not always around due to the nature of the business that I do, sending money into his account for the building project in Lafia.
“So when in April 2020 the schools were shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he suggested that our little daughter, who is about six years old, should travel with him alongside Dorcas to Lafia just for them to change environment for the holiday and also use the time to supervise the building project, a three-bedroom flat and three-room boys quarters..
“It never occurred to me that he could descend so low to lure Dorcas to bed, but that was exactly what happened.
“Between April and early September 2021 when they were in Lafia, I was in Dubai on a business trip and the COVID-19 pandemic trapped me there. With heavy restrictions on movement during this period, my husband turned our housegirl into his housewife, having sex with her at will until she became pregnant.
“So when I returned and met Dorcas heavily pregnant, and she narrated to me what happened in Lafia and my husband got to know about it, that was the end of our happiness and that of her daughter.
“Any small thing, this man would beat me black and blue. He became so aggressive and threatened to stop the business I was doing. He said it is the money I’m getting that is making me to look down on him.
“He has made a lot of efforts to stop the business but I resisted. Even when Dorcas told me she was pregnant for him, I asked him in the night and in a polite manner as my husband.
“Unknown to me, there was more trouble ahead. It is a miracle that I am alive today.
“During my last trip to Dubai, I paid about N3 million into his account to furnish the house and fence it round, but he never used the money. He started beating me, hitting my head against the wall and punching my breasts just because I asked a simple question.
“He would say the rate at which money was coming in was making him to suspect that I was into prostitution and it was getting into my head and he needed to stop me.
“While this was going on, I travelled to Lagos on a business trip. He picked Dorcas and dropped our daughter with a neighbour on the day I told him I was coming back.
“He went to Lafia with Dorcas and are right now leaving as husband and wife. When I called him on the phone, he told me to go about my own prostitution as he had settled down with Dorcas who was pregnant for him.
“It is about four months now and he has never picked my calls.”
Asked what she intended to do next, Mercy said: “I have reported the matter to my parents and his own parents, but both of them asked me to keep calm and stop calling him.
“But his attitude is strange to them. We should all be patient to see what he wants to do.
I have accepted my fate and I am waiting to see what he intends to do with my younger sister who is pregnant for him.
They may be enjoying themselves with my own hard earned money.”
Dorcas was recently delivered of a baby boy in Lafia.
Several attempts made to meet with Paul, who is now in Lafia, yielded no result as he kept giving the reporter fake appointments until Friday last week when our correspondent met him with his new wife and the new born baby at Lavista, one of the exquisite restaurants in Lafia located around Nasarawa State Polytechnic.
MY STORY – PAUL
“We raised the capital for the business she is doing together. I have two cars in Abuja which I gave out as taxis and I get returns weekly.
“Yes, she gave me money to buy a land and develop it from the proceeds of the business and the land was bought in my name, though I’m not claiming it solely because we have a daughter. The property is intact for her if she wants it.
“Yes, this girl became pregnant courtesy of me, but it was a mistake. But before I knew it, Mercy had told all her friends and neighbours and I was mad. We could no longer manage the information because it was public knowledge already.
“So when she returned abroad and the two of us became a subject of discussion, we got angry and decided that the worst should happen.
“She (Dorcas) is in good and safe hands. She has been delivered of a baby boy and I’m extremely happy.
“Initially, I thought of aborting it and apologise to Mercy that it was the work of the devil, but she exposed it and it became a scandal where we were staying, which is why I left her to settle in Lafia.
“I intend to pick up the pieces of my life and start all over again. After all, she has just a baby girl for me. So, if she is not ready, she can go.
“She keeps travelling from one place to another. We hardly have time to make love as husband and wife; a strong factor that lured me into making sex advances to Dorcas.
“I know it is bad but she didn’t allow us to manage it internally, and the manner she went about it made it impossible for us to think about abortion.
“Her property is intact. I have not taken it and will not take it. I am waiting to hear from her parents, but I’m planning to visit them to explain certain things to them.
I learnt they are planning to beat me, but I’m not scared.”
DORCAS SPEAKS
“I have decided to settle down with him. I won’t mind being a second wife.
“Paul actually disvirgined (deflowered) me and he is the biological father of my new born baby boy.
“What I want him to do is to meet my parents and pay my bride price so that my son can be saved.”
CULLED FROM THE NATION
Nineteen people were, on Sunday, burnt to death in an auto crash along the Okene-Lokoja highway in Kogi state.
In a statement by Jonas Agwu, its public education officer, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said the accident involved a Dangote truck with registration details NSH680YJ and a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number KMC455ZE.
According to the FRSC, both vehicles suffered a head-on collision after a route violation by the truck, resulting in an inferno.
The agency said out of the all-male
22 passengers involved in the accident, three were rescued.
“The TYT bus loaded from Kano was on its lane on the highway when the Dangote Truck driver who drove all the way from Port Harcourt wrongfully overtook a vehicle & collided head-on with the bus. The impact of the collision resulted in an inferno that burnt the victims to death,” the statement reads.
“Unfortunately, 19 people out of the 22 victims were killed and 1 injured. The remaining 2 victims who got rescued by FRSC operatives without injuries survived the crash because they complied with traffic regulations on compulsory use of seatbelt.
“The corpses of the dead victims whose lives were claimed by the crash have been deposited at Okene General Hospital.”
Dauda Biu, the FRSC corps marshal, said the agency will continue its ongoing prosecution of drivers “who by their actions cause road traffic crashes in Nigeria”.
Biu further called on the judiciary and leadership of transport unions and other relevant stakeholders in the road transportation sector to join hands with the corps to ensure speedy and effective prosecution of offenders.
Two notorious drug kingpins, Uwaezuoke Ikenna Christian and Agbo Chidike Prince, will now spend the rest of their lives in jail, following their arrests and prosecution by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
The sentencing of the two drug kingpins was disclosed in a statement signed by the spokesperson of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, and made available to Channels Television on Sunday.
He said that the journey of Uwaezuoke, a 43-year-old businessman to a lifetime in jail began when he was first arrested by NDLEA operatives on 19th March 2022 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja during the inward clearance of Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia after he was found to have ingested 100 big wraps of cocaine weighing 2.243 kilograms.
“He was subsequently arraigned at the Federal High Court, Abuja Division in charge number FHC/ABJ/CR/438/2022 and was granted bail on certain conditions after he pleaded not guilty. He thereafter absconded, leading the court to revoke his bail and issue an arrest warrant against him.
“In a curious twist, Uwaezuoke was again arrested by NDLEA operatives on 1st August 2023, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos while attempting to export 1.822 kilograms of cocaine to India through ingestion using a different passport and under a different name, Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi.
“He was again arraigned before Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court, Lagos Division in charge number FHC/L/554C/2023. He pleaded guilty to the two counts charge and was convicted and sentenced on 18th October 2023 to a total term of seven years of imprisonment or a fine of ₦1, 500,000.00. He paid the fine and was transferred to Abuja to face the importation case pending against him.
“He was re-arraigned on 20th March 2024 at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court in charge number FHC/ABJ/CR/438/2022 before Justice Joyce Obehi Abdulmalik, where he pleaded guilty again. Despite his plea, the court, noting his lack of remorse, the seriousness of drug-related offences and the fact that he is a repeated offender, convicted and sentenced him to life imprisonment,” the statement said.
In the case of 42-year-old Agbo Chidike Prince, Babafemi said he was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja during the outward clearance of Ethiopian Airlines flight to Hong Kong on 21st October 2023 for ingesting 49 wraps of cocaine weighing 998.73grams.
“Upon his arraignment before Justice Joyce Obehi Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, the defendant pleaded guilty to the one count charge, prompting the prosecution to present evidence and review the facts of the case.
“Despite the plea of allocutus by the defendant’s counsel, the court, noting the nature of the case and the commercial quantity of the drug, emphasized the seriousness of drug-related offences, convicted and sentenced the defendant on 15th April, 2024 to life imprisonment.”
Meanwhile, NDLEA said its officers at the gate C departure hall of the Lagos airport on Friday 26th April arrested a passenger, Yahaya Danjuma Oturah, while attempting to export 4,000 pills of tramadol 225mg to Malpensa, Italy on an Ethiopian Airline flight.
The Agency further narrated, “The psychoactive substance was found concealed in women wears and granulated melon packed in the suspect’s backpack and another bag containing food items. In his statement, Oturah who is a frequent flyer confessed he was hired to courier the drug for 700 Euros on successful delivery of the consignment in Italy.
“In Bayelsa, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday 24th April arrested 28-year-old Jennifer Iliya at Amarata area of Yenagoa for producing and distributing cakes laced with illicit drugs especially cannabis sativa. At the time of her arrest, substantial number of the drugged cakes weighing 1.5kg were recovered from her. A 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu and a dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, 30, had been arrested on Sunday 10th March by NDLEA operatives for in Yenagoa for a similar offence.
“Two suspects: Joseph Dadik, 47, and Bensha Yari, 32, were arrested with 24,180 ampoules of pentazocine injection weighing 135.5 kilograms at Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, while Adamu Umar, 18, was nabbed with 20.700kg cannabis when his house in Shuware area of Mubi, Adamawa state was raided on Friday 26th April.
“No less than 310.7kg cannabis was recovered on Thursday 25th April when NDLEA operatives raided parts of Mushin in Lagos state. While 300kg was seized at Olatunji Street, Mushin, 10.7kg of same substance was retrieved from two suspects: Tijani Wasiu and Suleiman Aisha at Anifowose, Mushin.
“While Stanley Chukwudi, 43, was arrested with 5,900 ampoules of pentazocine injection at Sabon Gari area of Kano State on Thursday 25th April, a couple, Fredrick Odion, 53, and Gladys Odion, 52, were nabbed with 50kg cannabis at Iruekpen, Esan west LGA, Edo state by NDLEA officers on Wednesday 24th April.
“With the same zeal, the various commands of the Agency across the country continued with the War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, advocacy campaign in the past week. Some of them include: WADA sensitisation lecture for students and staff of Federal Government College, Nise, Anambra; Royal Institute of Health Technology, Ifo, Ogun state; Akpugo-Eze High School, Oji-River, Enugu; Modibbo Adama University, Yola, Adamawa; and Jubilee Secondary School, Ore, Ondo state, among others.
“While commending the officers and men of the Directorate of Prosecution and Legal Services of the Agency for the diligent prosecution of Uwazuoke and Agbo cases, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) said the success rate of cases prosecuted by the agency has shown that there’s no escape route for those involved in the illicit trade of drug trafficking.
“He equally applauded those of MMIA, Lagos, Kaduna, Kano, Edo, Adamawa and Bayelsa Commands as well as their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their drug supply and drug demand reduction activities.”
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