When 35 year-old Adesuwa got married to
Kevin Okihria from Iruekpen in Esan West
Local Government Council, Edo State in
2004, she prayed that the resentment that
bedevilled the union from some of her in-
laws will fade with time.
Few years after the union, a lot of issues,
including the couple’s inability to have a child
of their own, compounded her fate. The
sordid situation ended up with the death of
both the mother in-law and her husband
under mysterious circumstances that now
pose a great threat to her life. Before then,
Adesuwa and Kevin Okihria were inseparable
despite the odds, praying and hoping that one
day, they would have their own baby to bless
their union.
The relative peace they maintained in their
home was the envy of friends and neighbours
at their No 18, Modupe Street, Balogun bus-
stop Ikeja, Lagos who though were aware of
the challenges the couple faced, marvelled at
how their marriage stood the test of time.
This was however, short-lived as Kevin’s
mother took ill and they found themselves
saddled with the sole responsibility of taking
care of her.
The distraught widow narrated her story:
“Shortly after Madam Okihria took ill,
members of her family decided that she was
brought to Lagos for proper medical attention
which was a far cry to what was obtained in
the village. When we brought her to Lagos,
she was admitted at the Naval Hospital, Ojo
where she spent two weeks during which
various diagnostic tests were conducted on
her. I and Kevin noticed that she was not
responding to the medications been
administered on her, so we decided to take
her elsewhere.
This, however, did not go down well with
doctors at the Naval Hospital who had no
choice than to compel my husband to sign an
undertaken which he did. The quest to get the
best for mama took us to four different
hospitals that included; Rivet Hospital, Ajao
Estate, Mobineki Hospital, Dopemu, Unity
Hospital,Ikieja and Trinity Hospital off
Awolowo way and the General Hospital in
Ikeja. “In all these hospitals, it was only at
Rivet Hospital that it was discovered that
Mama was suffering from kidney failure, liver
enlargement and septicemia.
We were told that mama had to be put on
dialysis. We couldn’t really understand why
the repeated calls put through to my
husband’s siblings who reside in Nigeria,
most especially, one Linda Okhiria(Kevin’s
sister), was not replied. I called Kevin’s
brother,Tony Okhiria who lives in the United
States to report his sister’s attitude but Tony
advised me to simply ignore Linda because
her presence would not help matters rather
she might compound issues;and he
encouraged us not to relent in taking care of
their mother.
“A few days later, to our surprise, Linda
showed up at the hospital and without talking
to any one, asked mama repeatedly “have you
reversed the thing”? After some seconds,
mama managed to mutter, “yes, I have
reversed it”. And Linda left. I and my husband
were lost because we had no clue what that
was all about. Mama pleaded with us to take
her away from the hospital; when we
demanded to know why, she simply said
“well, I am saying this because if I die here,
your brothers and sister will heap the blame
on you.
They will even insinuate that you used me for
ritual purposes. “Out of the fear of what
mama told us, we notified some family
members. It was the collective agreement of
these groups that saw mama taken back
home to her villager in Edo State. On getting
there, mama was admitted for further
treatment at the Irrua Specialist Hospital and
we engaged the services of one Sister Lovett
to take care of her, we also sent weekly
allowance to Lovett for her upkeep.
These gestures did not impress her relatives
who never saw anything good in whatever
we did; tongues started wagging that we
deliberately “dumped mama to die.” When it
got out of control, we were compelled to visit
mama at Irrua where we observed that she
was fast deteriorating. “On our return to
Lagos, I told my husband that based on the
countenance and body language of some of
his family members during our visit; they
might have plotted to bring mama back to
Lagos.
But Kevin said that would not be possible, I
was however taken aback when he added “I
know they want to get me through my sick
mother but I am not sure they will bring her
here, for what? he asked. “A few days later,
on arrival from an outing, we met a vehicle
which we immediately recognized as a
Peugeot wagon driven by one Mr. Samson
that ply the Ekpoma to Lagos route parked at
the entrance of our house; on a closer look,
we saw mama all by herself with no family
member accompanying her inside the
vehicle, half dead.
We were shocked and raised alarm which
attracted our neighbours. “We immediately
put on hold every other thing and sought for
a hospital to take mama to; but due the bed
sore and the stench from the sore, we were
turned down at the hospitals we went to. This
made my husband to Tony, his elder brother
in the USA and one of his uncles in the village
informing them of the situation. He
specifically informed the uncle to help him
look for another maid because he has
concluded plans to return her back to the
village.
“After some meetings, the family decided that
we take mama to a hospital in Benin City
instead. There was however, division
amongst them as some thought there could
be spiritual connotations to the issue and as
such, mama should be taken to some
traditional healing home instead. Others
argued that the medical doctors who all along
had treated her be allowed to continue,
another group also thought she should be
taken to church instead. This last group won
as the woman was taken to one ‘God fearing
Church’ in the Ogida part of the Benin City
where she eventually died.”
Crime Guard gatherd that after the death of
their mother, the story took a different
dimension. She continued, “After that, Tony,
my husband’s elder brother in USA demanded
to know how their mother died. “Whenever
such questions of how their mother died was
posed to Kevin by Tony, my late husband
wept bitterly. The calls persisted that at one
point, I decided to put a stop to it by snatching
the phone from him and putting it out. Also,
my husband suddenly became paranoid and
insomniac, talking all by himself and
punctuating such talks with “they want to kill
me, they have bewitched my home, and they
have taken procession of our cars.
Doctors and sympathizers advised us to seek
spiritual solution to the problem. That was
when we decided to go to the Synagogue
Church of Nations in Ikotun –Egbe, Lagos.
“On our way to Synagogue Church to attend
one of their Thursday services, my husband
suddenly parked his SUV by a palm tree and
pointing at it, he started shouting “look at
them, they are here already.” When I looked
closely at the top of the tree, I saw an owl
perching on one of the branches.
After that encounter, we decided to shift the
trip till the following day which was a Friday.
At about 7pm of that Thursday, we checked
into a hotel close to the Church. “At about 11
pm, Kelvin suddenly got up and said we
should return home, according to him, some
spirits were waiting at the gate of our house.
After a heated argument that attracted some
staff of the hotel, we were soon home bound
getting to Ikeja a little after midnight. But to
my shock, my husband suddenly exclaimed
“oh they are not there, let’s go back to
Ikotun”.
Out of fear and respect for him, I did not
object to that. He reversed and we headed
back to Ikotun, and arrived the hotel at about
1am. It took some minutes of pleading before
the Manager ordered the security men to
open the gate for us. We were also allowed
into the room earlier allocated to us after
which my husband changed into his night
wear. Instead of relaxing, he suddenly
changed back into the cloths he came in with
and ordered me to pack our belongings as we
are going back to Ikeja. “I objected.
From then, he became hysterical and started
banging on the doors and windows. The other
guests and staff woke up, all efforts to calm
him down failed until he was allowed to sleep
inside our SUV parked outside. All the while, I
was in contact with Professor Goodluck and
their family doctor who both advised me to
take things easy promising they would come
to my aid the following morning. The
following morning which was a Saturday, hell
was let loose as he became violent, chasing
me and everyone in sight; when he
eventually caught up with me, he hit me so
hard in the face and dragged me on the floor
to where our car was parked, shoving me in
into the car.
He pulled off his shirt and asked me to put it
on. I quickly did to avert more beating, a few
minutes later, he jumped out of the car and
ran away. In the midst of this confusion, I ran
after him shouting to anyone in sight to help
me hold him. “Some Mobile Policemen on
guard at one of the companies nearby and
some passersby managed to stop him.
Despite this attempt, he became so
uncontrollable and at one stage, attempted to
disarm a Mobile Policeman, that was when it
was advised that his legs and hands be
chained pending when we would gain access
to the officials of the Synagogue Church.
However, when the family Doctor came and
observed his violent behaviour, he advised
that we take him to the Psychiatric Hospital in
Yaba instead. Kelvin gave up the ghost on our
way to the hospital,” the widow lamented.

May GOD save us o
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Na wao. Nkan mbe.
Then again,so many fake news flying about the net

hei wot a wicked world jst like dat he died God av mercy o

Chybeno: hei wot a wicked world jst like dat he died God av mercy o

Amen o

I m so sure I met dis couple d last time I went to SCOAN. the lady was also named Adesuwa and d husband was an Ishan man. so sad.