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The
aged mother of Austrian- Nigerian woman,Ms Rose Aifuwa, who was killed by her
dubious lover/business partner Festus Aimufua, on Christmas day 2014 has cried
out for justice over the gruesome murder. According to the
Octogenarian woman, she said:
"I was with
my daughter at her residence at Upper Mission on 24 December, 2014. When it was 7pm I told my daughter that I wanted to start
going home because I wasn’t feeling well, so she started laughing, calling me
old woman. She asked me to come back the next day which was Christmas day.
Festus, my daughter’s boyfriend, was with my daughter with some of his friends
having drinks when I left them only for me to hear knock on my gate the next
day that my daughter’s dead body was lying at a junction. Later, the people
that came were trying to hide the matter from me by saying it was minor injury
that she sustained. Some people said she was shot at the back while others said
her intestine came out. The killer of my daughter said they both slept together
and that when he wanted to leave my daughter held him insisting he must pay her
the money he owed over some business transaction. It was at that point he
knocked her down with his vehicle and dragged her on the ground which led to
her death. My world has crumbled, I don’t know what to do, I am in hell without
my daughter, she is all I had. Each time my daughter brought goods from abroad,
I usually called Festus and after selling won’t remit money. I never knew the
same man will eventually kill my daughter and leave me in deep pain. My
daughter even rented an apartment for him (the suspect), spending over N250,000
in the process because they were going out. My daughter said he wanted to
uplift his social status and went as far as buying him a car because her
friends usually mocked her for going out with some one that was not up to her
standard. Beside, she had started building a house for him at Aduwawa. Festus
controlled most of her business dealings in Nigeria. Recently, she
complained to me that the bulk of her money unremitted was in the custody of
Festus; so I advised her not to give him any other goods. My daughter trusted
him and that was why she opened her heart to him by ensuring that he was in
charge of her business. My daughter was the one that had been sustaining the
family, now she is dead. My world has crumbled. I am begging the police and
Governor Adams Oshiomhole to come and help me. They should ask Festus why he killed my daughter despite all my daughter did for his in life. I have never seen this kind of wickedness in my life. Instead of killing her he should have gone with the money. I am finished” she said amidst tears
Investigations
revealed that late Rose and Festus who is married with two children, had
started off as business partners about three years ago and became lovers in
January 2014. Rose, who was based in Austria, partnered with Festus to
sell Tokunbo vehicles and spare parts in Nigeria which she shipped into the
country. Festus was expected to sell and remit shares of the proceeds from the
deal to her. He failed to do this and so when she came in December last year,
she asked for her money which according to her family had accumulated to about
N20million.
Rose invited Festus to her house at Upper
Mission road on Christmas Eve and he spent the night with her. In the morning
of Christmas day, Rose woke up demanding for her money from Festus. Festus,
according to reports, decided to run. He ran out of her house and jumped into
her vehicle and as he tried to speed off, he hit her. Police investigations
showed that after hitting her, he dragged her body on the floor for about 500m
before dumping her corpse at Upper mission road extension.
Residents of the area who recognized her
immediately contacted her family who got in touch with Festus and tricked him
to go and report the case to the nearest police station, after telling him that
Rose was alive. A confused Festus fell for the family's trick and proceeded to
the Oregbeni police station where he reported a case of accident and not
murder. He was thereafter arrested.
Edo state Police Public relations officer, DSP
Joseph Edoigiawerie, while confirming the incident said the brother of the late
Rose reported the case to them
“A case of murder
was reported by one Elvis Omokhojie, that his sister, named Rose Aifuwa, was
found lying dead on Upper Mission Extension junction, Aduwawa, Benin-City, and
the cause of death unknown. We have been to the scene of incident and
taken the corpse to the mortuary. Our investigation led to the arrest of the
man friend or lover because, according to the report, he (the suspect) was last
seen with her” he said.
Meanwhile
the Austrian embassy had written the Edo state Police command over the death of
Rose who had travelled to Nigeria with her Austrian passport. SOURCE: VANGURD
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