Mother Of Three and Pastor Lover Collabo to Murder Husband

It was quite sad and a pathetic end for Mr Victor Nsongbunyo, an indigene of Akwa Ibom state and Deputy Manager at the Nigeria Petroleum Development (NPDC) Company, Benin City. The deceased allegedly murdered by his wife Mrs Enebong Victor and her Pastor boy friend, Prince Udoka Nkanchukwu who were paraded by the Edo state Police Commissioner, Funso Adebanjo last Tuesday.

Saturday Vanguard learnt that the deceased who was recently promoted to the position of Deputy Manager, was due to retire next year. It was learnt that the decease and his wife had been having issues with the paternity of their children after the deceased suspected the wife was having an extra marital affair with the Pastor.

The deceased was said to have visited home to complain to both his family and that of his wife after suspecting that the current pregnancy which is being carried by the wife was not from him. Consequently, the families resolved that a DNA would be conducted after giving birth to the child. Saturday Vanguard further learnt that it was this arrangement that infuriated the wife that led her into plotting to murder her husband with her lover Pastor.

*Mrs Isonguyo

Friday October 22, 2013, It was learnt that the Pastor whom Vanguard gathered has been a close family friend, called the deceased on telephone and told him he wanted to see him. The deceased was said to have drove to somewhere along Sapele road, to meet with the Pastor. On getting there, it was gathered that the Pastor entered the vehicle and stabbed the deceased twice. As if that was not enough, he drove the car to hidden destination along Sapele road and set both the car and the deceased car ablaze.

On Monday 25, the wife was said to have gone to the office to report that the husband was missing. But apparently after visiting the husband’s office, she went straight to the bank and withdrew N4milion from the husband’s account.

The wife of the deceased also went to the police to report the incident. However, staff of the NDDC was informed that people observed a burnt car and somebody inside it somewhere along Sapele Road, they quickly rushed down and found it was that of Mr Nsongbunyo. The shocked NPDC staff went back to the deceased wife at their home to inform her of the situation but found her sitting comfortably at home watching African Magic. However, detectives intensified search for the deceased new car which was given to him by the company following his promotion. The car, a Volkswagen Passat car was tracked to a compound at Ekenwan road Benin City.

Vanguard learnt that a lady was accosted by detectives in the compound and she confessed that the car was packed by a Pastor that lives in the compound. When the Pastor came out, detectives observed burns in his left hand and his face. The Pastor disclosed that one of his daughters in the church sowed a seed with the car. He subsequently took them to the residence of the deceased where it was discovered that it was the deceased wife.

The duo were arrested immediately and according to the state Police commissioner, have confessed to have committed the dastard act.  According to Adebanjo,  “what happened was that the Pastor called the deceased to come and meet him somewhere along Sapele Road, when the deceased got there the Pastor stabbed him twice and then burnt the car.

The woman gave the husband’s new car to the Pastor and we found the car with the Pastor. A 2013 model of Volkswagen car. It is a very sad and wicked act. After killing the man in his vehicle he set the car ablaze. The Pastor changed the plate number of the car and put a fake one after he murdered the man. It was when we saw the burnt in his hand that we knew that he was involved. Though he has confessed and after now we will take them to court. They both confessed that they are lovers but I believe that it was wicked on their part to have plotted the killing of the man.

Mrs Isonguyo who denied she was having extra marital affairs with the Pastor, narrated that “when I did not see my husband I ran to the Pastor because we have known for a very long time. I took my husband’s new car to him to sow a seed in the church so that my husband will be found. I told him to take it to the church but I don’t know that he went and changed the plate numbers.I had to ask him to pray harder because I love my husband and I don’t want anything to happen to him.

I did not kill my husband because I loved him. I brought the car and told him to take it to his church and sow a seed that I want God to answer my prayers so that my husband will come back. I told him to take it to the church because even if it is a house I would have taken it to sow a seed for my husband to come back. I gave it to him but what I did not know was that he went to change the plate number and other papers that have to do with the car.

I was lying down in the house at about 11pm that day when the police came and arrested me”. Asked if she is having extra marital affair with the Pastor, she asserted “ God forbid, I have not had any affair with the Pastor. The Pastor has been a close family friend and we always give him cloths to go and share in the orphanages. And even when I travelled with my husband we gave him our ATM card so that he can take care of our poultry and whatever that is needed to be done. He has been very honest to us so I don’t know what is happening”.

She further denied having quarrel with the late husband, asserting that “Until I came to this place nobody told me that my husband is dead. I pray that God should intervene because I have never committed any crime before in my life. I want God to intervene in this matter. I have three boys for my husband, 17, 16 and 15 years”.

In his confession, Pastor Ukachukwu whom Vanguard learnt has not been to their church, Land of Evidence Church along Airport Road Benin City, said he kicked against bringing the car to him by the deceased wife but decided to accept it when she insisted that she wanted to sow a seed. According to him “I have been a family Pastor and sometimes I pick their children from school.

She called me and said that she wanted to give me a car to sow a seed in my church. When she even brought the car I asked her why she should bring the car in the middle of this crisis but she said her husband is worth more than any material thing that she can make any sacrifice for her husband. I changed the plate number because any gift for Pastors you have to change it in order to be able to drive the car”. CP Adebanjo said the duo would be charged to court for murder.

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Share this pageMandela death: Cousin recounts his rebellious early life

By Pumza FihlaniBBC News, Mthatha

When 91-year-old Nozolile Mtirara speaks of Nelson Mandela, she speaks of a simple man.

The widow of one of Mr Mandela's cousins - and close childhood friend - she remembers a man who enjoyed eating sheep tripe and reminiscing about his days as a young herd boy.

The two met when Nozolile married Justice Mtirara in 1945 when she was 18 years old, and she eventually became one of Mr Mandela's close confidantes.

Nozolile Mtirara and Mandela shared a special bond

After he retired from public life, Mr Mandela had more time to devote to friends and family, and he and Mrs Mtirara spent many happy afternoons together, she says.

Changed relationship

Mr Mandela came to live with Mr Mtirara in 1927, after leaving his childhood home of Qunu, in Eastern Cape province, to stay with his uncle, Paramount Chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo.

The mud hut which Mr Mandela shared with Mr Mtirara, is still standing. It is decorated in a faded paint and a bright blue door, as it was when Mr Mandela lived there.

Mrs Mtirara has looked after the family homestead, the Mqhekezweni Great Place, for decades.

This won her great favour with him, and their relationship changed from that of in-laws to close friends.

A few years after he was freed from prison, he built her a seven-bedroom Tuscan-style house.

Pictures of Mr Mandela are hanging in Mrs Mtirara's dining room.

Many of them are taken with her children, who call him grandfather.

There are plans to turn Nelson Mandela's former home into a national heritage site

Journeying to the past

Once or twice a year, Mr Mandela would drive the treacherous gravel road between Qunu and Mqhekezweni to visit Mrs Mtirara and share a meal followed by hours of conversation about his childhood.

These visits were a great pleasure for both of them, says Mrs Mtirara.

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"He had a childlike spirit, even in his old age. His face would light up when he shared stories about his childhood," she says.

After Mr Mandela was expelled from Fort Hare University at the age of 22, Chief Dalindyebo insisted that both men take wives.

"They did not want to get married so they decided to run away, to a place far from the rule of the chief," recalls Mrs Mtirara.

"He and my late husband stole a couple of Chief Dalindyebo's oxen and sold them so they could have money to go to Johannesburg and begin a new life."

"Mandela said his uncle was furious when he heard what they had done and sent word to Johannesburg for them to return home. Justice did, but Mandela stayed a bit longer and got involved in politics," she adds.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a young and vocal Mr Mandela became the face of the black struggle against apartheid - leading to his arrest and decades of incarceration.

'Mischievous and curious'

He was next to return to the home he loved as an elderly man - a man who had captured the hearts of a nation as South Africa's first black president.

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Still this is not the man Mrs Mtirara celebrates.

On his visits they would walk in the yard, both using walking sticks.

A big tree in the middle of the yard marks where a traditional court used to be held.

"The community would bring their cases here for the chief to rule on. Mandela would often listen in. He was a curious and mischievous boy," she says as we walk past the tree, retracing the path she walked so many times with Mr Mandela.

As Mr Mandela grew more frail, he limited his visits to Qunu and would instead send his grandson Mandla or his driver to fetch Mrs Mtirara - and so the lunch and story ritual continued.

Mrs Mtirara says she was always given pride of place at Mr Mandela's table.

Conversations steered clear of his life on Robben Island, she says, as if he wanted to keep the man he was to the world separate from the man he was to his friends and family.

"It was as if he only wanted to remember the simpler times, when he was an ordinary boy growing up in a small village, and we allowed him this," she says.

MESUT OZIL FINDS ARSENAL TO BE THE PERFECT CLUB

Mesut Ozil went back to his childhood to become part of the Arsenal family.

He first started playing football as a kid in Gelsenkirchen in what was known as the “monkey cage”, helping explain his close control, ability under pressure and skill that has lit up the Premier League.

This week, the memories came flooding back when he had a kickabout at Dennis Bergkamp’s Cruyff Court with a group from one of The Arsenal Foundation’s beneficiaries - Freedom From Torture, who use football as a therapeutic tool.

Enjoy the interview with the mercurial German..

“It did remind me of that,” said Germany international Ozil. “The one I played in as a boy was worse than this one because the surface was much rougher, there were stones and it really hurt when you fell. It partly shaped the way I play, it teaches you something.

“I’m really proud to be part of this Arsenal family here.

“As a footballer, we’re out and about, on the road all of the time, it’s great to just stop for a moment, see these things.

“It’s actually what I said right when I joined Arsenal. When people tried to convince me when I came here, it was that family spirit at Arsenal which convinced me mainly. This is exactly part of that, what we’ve seen here.”

Ozil, 25, his colleagues in the first-team squad and boss Arsene Wenger are donating a day’s wages to the Gunners' charity partners for Everton’s visit on Sunday.

It is a gesture which, like the rest of the club’s philosophy, Ozil has bought into.

For a world-class player and Arsenal’s £42million record signing, the Germany star has no ego and appears softly spoken and humble.

After signing on deadline day, Ozil insisted on going round the whole club - from accounts to catering - to introduce himself.

Pressure? What pressure? Ozil's Real Madrid stint was tougher than playing for Arsenal

 

He is enjoying his new life and the change of pace from Real Madrid. But if there is anything he took from his time in Spain it was handling the expectation that goes with such a huge fee.

Ozil smiles when asked if he feels the pressure at Arsenal as he was bought to try to help win them the title this season.

“I’ve played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game,” he said.

“So after having played there for three years, pressure doesn’t scare me. That’s why I don’t really feel the pressure. The second thing is that what I do on a daily basis is what I love.

“I love playing football so I go out to play football and I don’t really feel pressure. Of course, there are some days when things don’t work out as well as on other days but that doesn’t have anything to do with pressure.”

Ozil has found a house in London and is adapting to English football - and a hectic fixture list which he reveals is described in Germany as “English weeks.”

Also telling is his admiration for Wenger.

“He was the one who convinced me to come here and now I can say that I couldn’t be any happier than to be here,” added Ozil. “He really loves football. I hope he will stay here for many more years and be successful.

“I think this really has been the perfect step for me to come and join this club. We have some very talented players here and this is why I think we can achieve something great.

"We have to develop further to achieve this, but we can do it.”

Arsenal’s match against Everton tomorrow is dedicated to The Arsenal Foundation. Arsene Wenger and the first-team squad will donate a day’s wages to support a variety of projects which reach young people to transform lives. For more information and to donate visit www.arsenal.com/thearsenalfoundation.