A 41-year-old woman has been murdered only weeks before she was to relocate to Canada with her family.
Oluwakemi Odugbesan is said to have been murdered by suspected armed robbers around Oduntan in Ketu, Lagos.
She was said to be returning from a vigil at 6am on April 10, which happened to be her husband’s birthday, when she was accosted by the robbers.
In an attempt to take her phone and handbag, she was stabbed multiple times on the chest and ribs.
According to The Nation newspaper, her attackers were the ones who called her parents with her phone to inform them she was fatally injured.
Following the information, relatives were said to have raced to the scene and rushed the woman to a hospital on Oduntan Street, where she was pronounced dead.
The deceased, her husband and three children were billed to relocate to Canada in few weeks before her unfortunate death.
Her murder was said to have thrown the entire community into panic, with residents demanding an end to attacks by armed hoodlums who usually pounce on commuters early in the mornings or at nightfall.
Spokesman for Lagos Police Command, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the case has been transferred to the homicide section, State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for discreet investigation.
My Take:
This is one of the most heartbreaking stories I have read in recent times. It is bad enough that Nigerians are suffering because we have an insensitive government who don’t care about the lives and welfare of her people but it is worse that we now turn against one another.
Why did the robbers stab her multiple times? Why would you stab someone because of a phone? How much will these phone thieves get from selling her phone that made them waste her life and rendered her children motherless?
This is so sad. May her killers never go free. May they be caught and punished accordingly. May the soul of the departed rest in peace and may God give her family the fortitude to bear this loss.