Forester Samson, 17, native
of Igbekue in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State,Nigeria, was
stabbed to death in far away Moscow, the capital of Russia.
According to information
gathered. It was discovered that she was murdered by yet-to-be-identified
Russian gangsters.
According to a family
source, the perpetrators went further to lock her body in a room and set it
ablaze. Though, the police took her to the hospital, it was rather futile.
However, Forester was
said to have been sponsored abroad by one Mercy ‘’Madam’’who is suspected to be
trafficking Nigerian girls on the promise that she would assist them with decent
jobs in Russia. This led Forester with the approval of her mother jumped at the
offer with high hopes.
According to the deceased's sister, Sonia
Samson, they got a call from Mercy on Tuesday March 4, 2014 that Forester had
died in an inferno. She added that the family was later told that Forester was
stabbed before being set ablaze.
Sonia said, ‘’her ‘madam’
is the one that called us on Tuesday and told us she was locked in a room and
set ablaze by some unknown Russians. She told us that she was rushed to the
hospital that they were treating her.
Later that day, she
also told us that she was initially stabbed before she was burnt. Not too long
after, she told us that she was dead. The madam said she was not the only
victim in the attack.
She said there were
five other Nigerians, that another one died four days after the attack.
My sister died
mysteriously, just as another sister of mine was also killed by armed robbers.
Sincerely, I am confused because I don't know why all this is happening to us.
Particularly for me, it is so painful that I don't know what to say or do. This
is a difficult time for the family and I believe we need to be more prayerful
more than ever before.’
The late Forester, who
would have been celebrating her 18th birthday on March 30 hails from. She
completed her secondary education in 2013.
Meanwhile, Forester's
uncle, Mr. Saturday Samson Osazuwa accused Forester's mother, for conniving
with the said madam (Mercy) to deceive and persuade Forester to travel with
Mercy to Russia. He queried why Forester's mother, Elizabeth, decided to hide
his niece's whereabouts from him. Saturday, who now acts as a father figure to
the children since their father's death, said the mother refused to disclose
where Forester was, even as he insisted on seeing her.
‘The mother was aware
that Forester had travelled. Not just that, I believe she was part of the
arrangement that her 17-year-old daughter should travel abroad. It is really
unfortunate and wicked of her to have taken that decision.’ He said.
"If my brother,
her husband was alive, he would never allow such thing for any of his children.
What was Forester looking for in Russia...? Was it to go there and school...?
Certainly not. Now, she has caused the entire family pain and sorrow. The girl
was beautiful and intelligent. I still cannot understand what she was sent to
Russia to do at her tender age?.
For more than five
months, her mother was dribbling me whenever I wanted to see Forester. I sent
for her to come and see me on a number of occasions but they kept telling me
that she was residing with her mother's relatives in Benin here only for me to
receive a call from them that she was killed in a fire accident in Russia. This
is the girl that they kept telling me was in Benin. Until her death, the mother
refused to tell anybody in our family. If she thought that the children belonged
to her alone, that is where she's mistaken.’’
Mr. Evabayekhe
Christopher, an uncle of late Forester's father, described Forester's mother as
callous. He wondered why any reasonable mother would send her own daughter
abroad for monetary reasons.
His queried: What
exactly will Forester are doing abroad when she was supposed to be studying at
University of Benin or any other higher institution of learning in Nigeria...?
What she did is
unacceptable to every member of our family...?
The family are now
accusing Mercy of human trafficking and calling on National Agency for the
Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP) to investigate the activities of
this said Mercy. They also want the Nigerian Embassy in Russia to as a matter
of urgency unravel the mystery surrounding the death of their daughter.
