Meet Edward Julius Mwai who was an only son raised by a single mother, and they lived just alone. He never met his father. He remembers that his mother was depressed and when he was 10 years old his mother succumbed to a sudden stroke and ahe died.
A neighbour informed his mother’s family of her demise and within a week his mother was buried in Nakuru cemetery. Edward’s 3 aunties, sisters abandoned him at the cemetery, immediately after the funeral. None of them were willing to take care of him so he went back home alone.
A week later, the landlord evicted him and confiscated all household items because his mother had rent arrears of 5 months.
Homeless and abandoned by his family he became a street boy. A children’s home took him in, educated him up to class 8, then kicked him out to the streets again. Edward went back to being a street boy, 14 years old, where he was introduced to peddling drugs including bhang, glue and ’tap tap . He had several encounters with the police, he was harassed, arrested and released severally because his young age made him appear Innocent.
He narrowly escaped death when vigilantes attacked him and his friend, for selling drugs. He incurred a ‘panga’ cut on his head but his friend was not so lucky, he lost his life. The incident, made him turn a new leaf, and he started doing legal jobs.
To date, Edward had never met the rest of his family. He is now transformed, born again christian and hopes to become a celebrated artist. He still doesn’t Understand why his family left him at the cemetery but says he has forgiven them just as God forgave him and would wish to reunite with them.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has rescued a mentally-ill woman, Laritu Safiyanu, who was kept in a cage for several months by family members in Katsina State.
The NHRC Coordinator in the state, Barr. Adamu Umaru Kasimu, who disclosed this to journalists in Katsina on Friday, said a Good Samaritan informed the commission that the victim was chained and caged by her family members for alleged mental illness in Gyaza village, Kankai local government area of the state.
Kasimu said the NHRC on hearing the report swung into action and rescued the woman.
The coordinator stressed that it took the intervention of the commission and other stakeholders to rescue the victim from the inhuman and degrading treatment she subjected to by her family members.
He said: “Investigation revealed that the woman who was kept in a filthy environment unsuitable for human habitation, had for a long time been denied rights to dignity of a person, a situation that may have contributed to her state of mental instability.
“The commission had to wade in and immediately secure the release of Laritu from the deplorable condition she was subjected to.
“The NHRC will continue to monitor the condition of the victim to ensure that she gets the right kind of treatment she deserves.
“We wish to educate the family of the victim on human rights norms stipulating that every person deserves to live in dignity and be free from all forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
“The 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended provides for the right to life and dignity.
“Therefore, any action that infringes on this fundamental right or any other human right is highly unacceptable and must be discouraged in all ramifications.”
A 15-year-old boy has been found dead inside a freezer at his grandmother’s house in Brazil amid mysterious circumstances.
The body of Jose Eduardo Alves Goncalves Rosa was discovered in the neighbourhood of Vila Adelina in Campo Grande on the afternoon of January 11.
He was found by his cousin, 20-year-old Carlos Magno Goncalves Rodrigues, who was asked by Jose’s brother, Leonardo, to check up on the teen after he failed to show up for work.
Carlos found Jose inside the freezer at his grandmother’s house wearing just his underpants and with no obvious signs of violence.
The freezer was located in the property’s rear garden and was not connected to a power source at the time.
Jose often helped out his 26-year-old brother, a refrigerator technician, with odd jobs. However, he failed to show up for a job on the day he was found.
Leonardo told local media: “I thought it was strange, he’d been missing since early. I called everyone and no one knew anything.”
The house was locked at the time, and Jose’s grandmother was not at home. However, when she was away she would often leave a key in a hidden place, which was known to the teen.
Aware of this fact, Carlos decided to search the property in case Jose was there.
He jumped the wall and found the unconnected freezer in the back garden, along with a trickle of blood dripping into a hole.
He told local media: “It was already smelling bad. I opened the freezer and found him there sitting in just his underpants.”
He called the emergency services who arrived at the scene and confirmed that Jose was dead.
In the garden there were reportedly a number of chairs placed in a circle, suggesting the teen had not been alone, and a hose was also found at the scene, which may have been used to clean up.
A number of plants were also knocked over, suggesting the people Jose was with had jumped the wall to escape.
Leonardo recalled that his brother asked him for a hookah to smoke shisha with some friends. “I just don’t know with who,” he told local media.
The police seized a notebook, a mobile phone, and a knife from the scene to assist with their investigation.
Jose did not have a criminal record and was known to be a calm and happy person.
His death was the latest in a string of tragedies for the family. His grandfather passed away a month earlier and his uncle died the previous week.
Leonardo described Jose as “a person who didn’t have problems, he didn’t have beef with anyone, everyone liked him”.
The police are currently investigating the teen’s death.
Nemesis has finally caught up with a man popularly addressed as “Nwa Ezeakwu” and his wife. They were paraded around Eke Osumenyi market in Nnewi south yesterday after making confessions of how they killed a family of 5 through poison and others. It is a wicked world!
The evil man and the wife summoned before the villagers where they made confessions.
Recall in 2017 when a man in Anambra state by name Mr. Chukwudi Asor lost his 3 children, wife, and mother to the cold hand of death in one day. It was said that his mother went to Eke Osumenyi market to buy dry powdered cassava (Aribo).
Chukwudi’s wife, after cooking cook, stirred the dry cassava powder for the family. She took from the soup and the swallow and ate with her 3 kids who returned from school. She kept for her husband who was a commercial motorcyclist (Okada rider) and her mother-in-law who was not at home at the said time.
Before evening, Chukwudi’s wife and children began to complain of severe stomach pain. In the process, they began to vomit blood. They were about to be rushed to the hospital. Or, they were rushed to the hospital. But they all died.
Chukwudi lost his wife and 3 children the same day. That very day in Osumenyi Community was like a war zone. There was no one people didn’t suspect.
The mother of Chukwudi was so heartbroken. His son was her only child. How could she be alive to buried her grandsons and a daughter who will stand beside her grave when she would be buried, she thought to her herself.
When everyone left the house, Chukwudi’s mother went to take the same cassava dry powder and stirred. She took from the same pot of soup and ate. She did that because she said she was the one who bought the dry cassava powder.
When she finished eating the same meal, she also complained of severe stomach pains and she died. The woman who sold the dry cassava powder became the prime suspect. The people went to the market where she sells and held her.
The poor woman collected a pot and made a fire in the market. There, she mixed all the powdered cassava she was selling and stir in the market. She ate it in big quantity in the presence of everyone in the market. But nothing happened to her.
Although she didn’t die, many people didn’t still believe she was innocent. People avoided buying from her until she ran out of customers and packed from the market.
It was a gruesome sight on that fateful day in Mr. Chukwudi Asor’s compound in 2017 as 5 graves were dug for five coffins. One by one, he saw his mother, wife, 2 sons, and a daughter laid in the grave. Their killers were rejoicing while he was mourning.
People like us who came to console him on that very day, pleaded with him to forge ahead. We suggested the soup could have been infested with wall gecko or centipede. We didn’t the killers were among us.
Until the 12th of January, 2020, Mr. Chukwudi’s kindred was sharing meat given to them during a traditional marriage. Two men were arguing and confronting themselves. One said to another; do you want your life to be like that of Chukwudi’s? Do you remember how miserable his life is now? In your case, I will snuff you into my nose like a snuff”. These were his exact words.
The man whom he was addressing grabbed him by the shirt. He was also lucky some people around heard the threats.
The men around the place held him too and began to ask him to explain what happened to Mr. Chukwudi Asor. He was taken to his house from the spot. The people saw pots of charms, people’s photos, names, and belonging. There spiritual mirror, Uji, all manner of items tied with red clothes.
The people began to beat him and he began to confess. He confessed he poisoned the family of Mr. Chukwudi Asor with the help of his wife. He said his wife bought the poison in the market and sneaked into Mr. Chukwudi Asor’s family and mixed it in the powdered cassava.
The man and the wife were paraded in the markets. He was made to untie the destinies of the people in the community which he has made useless. After so many parading and cursing processes, he was banished from the Osumenyi community.
But the second drama ensued when they got to the boundaries of the communities where they were to be banished. The youths of the communities got the information beforehand and waited for them at the boundaries.
The evil man and the wife were marched to the Osumenyi/Amichi Boundary in Nnewi South, the youths of the Community rejected them and drove them back. They were marched out to the Ebenator/ Osumenyi Boundary in Nnewi South, he was equally rejected. Utuh Community too rejected them. Finally, they were driven into Imo State via Urasi/Lilu boundary.
This is the woman who sold the (Aribo) Powdered cassava who was accused. She was crying for being vindicated
The wife of the evil man. She confessed she bought the poison that killed Chukwudi’s family.
Dreams don’ t come true when you fold your hands hoping that what you desire will fall on your feet without making a move. A Liberian lady narrated how she suffered when she was a teenager and because she could not bear the pain and suffering her family were going through then, she ran away from home.
She shared on social media and it spark a lot of reactions from people. However, she revealed that her family were homeless, no place to rest, the pain and hardship were too much on her family. She thought of what to do then, she left her family with tears running from her eyes because there was no hope and dream.
Though she did not give up because she believed that one day things will turn around for good. As a teenager that don’ t know what life really is, she started hustling for herself. When your future is bright, you experience a lot of things that will make you to give up but it takes God’s grace and determination to achieve what you hope for.
Life is not that easy for anyone, many dreams and destiny has been shattered because there was no hope to move on. She left her family 30 years ago because they were poor but when she returned another thing happened.
However, thirty years later she returned to her family with tears of joy. Though she did not believe that things would turn around for her one day. She’ s now a source of blessing to her family, people around and to her community.
She was not selfish with the wealth she has, she didn’t think about how she suffered which will make her not to help people around. Instead she used her wealth to affect lives, giving home to under privilege people and bless those that did not see food to eat. Also, she gave clothes to those that don’ t have what to wear.
Sometimes everything that happened has a reason and purpose it wants to achieve. God bless you so that you can use your wealth to affect lives, had it been she didn’t take the risk her life and family would have remained the same.
A son to a couple who were brutally murdered together with three others in Karura area, Kiambu county, Kenya, has confessed to the crime.
The 22-year-old university IT student identified as Lawrence Simon Warunge, was arrested on Friday, January 8, after he went missing following the gruesome murder of his parents, brother, his cousin and a mason at their Karura home in Kiambu County on Tuesday night.
Police said they arrested Lawrence as a prime suspect into the incident after a three-day manhunt.
After he was arrested, he later confessed to the incident and led police to a residence in Mai Mahiu area on Saturday where they recovered the murder weapon, a kitchen knife, clothes, shoes and a piece of paper.
He had thrown the exhibits to a pit latrine. Police dug the wall of the latrine and used ropes to recover the exhibits from the 20-feet deep pit.
He also took police to an open field in the same area where he said he burnt some of the evidence.
Lawrence claims he killed the five alone but police said they are open to a possibility there were other players.
The most chilling part is where Lawrence said he caught up with his father, Nicholas Njenga Warunge as he escaped from him after he broke one of his legs after jumping off a balcony.
“He says the father was hit by an electric cable as he ran away and jumped off the balcony and was indisposed further after he fractured a leg. This gave him time to catch up with him and he killed him like a snake,” said an officer who had heard the confession.
Lawrence’s girlfriend who lived in the house in Mai Mahiu is also being held for interrogation.
Lawrence said after he murdered the five using a kitchen knife at about 8 pm he jumped onto a motorcycle and rode up to the nearby Wangige shopping centre where he took a public service vehicle to Mai Mahiu while carrying the killer weapon and other recovered evidence. The bodaboda rider is yet to be found for questioning.
In his chilling confession, he said on arrival at Mai Mahiu, he went to an open field in the area where he burnt some of them on Tuesday, January 5 at about 11 pm.
Detectives from the Homicide Unit visited the site and collected the debris for analysis. The officers and the suspect donned white surgery clothes as they visited the scenes where he disposed of the exhibits.
Lawrence told police that his parents were “satanic and killers” hence deserved to die.
Lawrence is a university student in the city and was initially thought to have gone to school. His mobile phone signal was traced to Mai Mahiu, Naivasha. It was later traced to Thika and later to Kabete area on Friday.
Police said the suspect went to a relative’s home in Ngongoro area to seek refuge there before they were alerted Friday night. He was later arrested when he told police his parents were “satanic and cruel”.
Police had thought at least five people were involved in the murder of Nicholas Njoroge Warunge, his wife Annie, sons Christian and Maxwell and a construction worker James Kinyanjui.
Their badly mutilated bodies were found in their Kiambaa home on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is believed a dispute over property was the motive of the murder.
The bodies were moved to the mortuary where a post-mortem is expected on Monday. Nothing was stolen from the compound during the incident.
Warunge had arrived in Kenya from the USA where he worked as a nurse for Christmas holidays about 11 days before his murder.
His two elder daughters survived the cold blood murder because they had the previous day gone to school. Neighbours said they are in secondary school.
Annie who worked with Kiambu County Government as a psychologist nurse and two of their children were found murdered and the bodies lying in the compound.
Lawrence told police he made his way into the house through the rear door, where he found his mother Annie, and hacked her to death before slitting her throat.
The commotion in the kitchen drew the attention of the second victim, his 13-year-old cousin, Maxwell Njenga, who he confronted along the corridor and cut in the head and throat. Maxwell had just turned 13 on December 26, 2020.
His blood brother Christian Njenga was killed as well and his throat slit on his bed.
He claimed his father Warunge was in the master bedroom upstairs at the time of the attack. He rushed to the balcony on sensing danger and jumped down where he broke his leg but he caught up with him and stabbed him 34 times before slitting his throat at near the gate and left for the dead.
Also killed in the same style was the mason, James Kinyanjui who was in the home at the time of the attack. Lawrence claims he killed them all.
Kiambu police boss Ali Nuno said they will also revisit past unsolved murder incidents that happened in the family and are probably related to the latest murder. Last Tuesday’s incident was the fifth in the family according to Nuno.
He said the first victim was killed in 2016 when one Allan Warunge, a brother to Njoroge was killed.
He was shot for the first time and confined on a wheelchair before his assailants pursued him later.
“There was an incident which involved Alan Njire Waruinge in 2016 who was a victim after being shot twice after being confined on a wheelchair. And there was Kenneth Mungai Waruinge who was assassinated alongside with his niece thereafter,” said Nuno.
“Kinyanjui Kamau, a family member was also killed in unclear circumstances.”
The Indian doctor taking care of thousands of elephants
Dr Sharma says he has treated over 10,000 elephants
Kushal Konwar Sarma is affectionately known as the “elephant doctor” in India’s wildlife community. He has spent 35 years of his life caring for elephants, saving the lives of thousands of them in the forests of India and Indonesia, writes BBC Hindi’s Dilip Kumar Sharma.
“I am the happiest when I am around elephants,” says Dr Sarma. “The amount of time I have spent with elephants is more than the time I have spent with my family.”
The 60-year-old grew up in a village called Barma in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, which is home to around 5,000 of the country’s more than 27,000 elephants, according to the last survey conducted in 2017.
He says he has been able to understand the “language” of elephants. “In addition to feeding them, I communicate with them through signs,” he says, adding that “now most of the elephants here recognise me”.
Dr Sarma was awarded Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian honours, for his work earlier this year. According to his own estimate, he has treated more than 10,000 elephants so far.
It all began in 1984, when he first treated a sick elephant under the tutelage of his mentor, Professor Subhash Chandra Pathak.
“I remember the first time I went with him to Manas National Park to treat elephants. I was very excited that day,” Dr Sarma says.
image captionAssam state is home to around 5,000 of India’s elephants
His connection to elephants can be traced to his childhood, when his family took care of a female elephant called Laxmi in their home. “When I was about seven, I used to sit on Laxmi and go around the village – it’s one of my most vivid memories of her. That’s how I began to love elephants.”
This love and bond with elephants has cemented his career as the go-to doctor in the state, especially during the monsoon season. Assam is particularly prone to heavy flooding, often putting the animals there at risk.
The Kaziranga National Park, a Unesco Heritage Site in the state, is one such area. Most recently, the state was hit by flooding in July and officials said at least 51 animals in the park died.
“Animals suffer greatly during the flooding season in the park. Many animals die and even elephants get washed away,” Dr Sarma, who often helps officials with their animal rescue efforts, says. “It’s common for baby elephants to get separated from their mothers. In such situations, they need extra care and support. That’s why I help out during the floods.”
He isn’t always officially asked to go and help during the floods. “But I always go because I want to try and save as many animals as possible.”
image captionDr Sharma’s says he’s risked his life numerous times as part of his job
Dr Sarma has covered over 300,000km (186,411 miles) of dense forest in Assam, encountering and treating thousands of elephants. But in addition to his childhood elephant, another one remains close to his heart – Geeta, a female elephant who lives in the Kaziranga National Park.
“Once when I was visiting the US, I got news that someone had shot Geeta while she was in the Kaziranga National Park. Fortunately, none of the five bullets hit any vital organs, but I was very anxious,” he recalls, adding that he even considered abandoning his trip to fly back to India.
“But instead, I assisted in Geeta’s treatment over the phone,” he says. As soon as he returned a week later, he drove straight to the park to meet Geeta.
image captionAnimals at the Kaziranga National Park are at high risk during monsoon floods
“I assured her that I would treat her well and that I would extract all the bullets from her body. After locating the bullets with a metal detector, I removed the first three bullets through surgery.”
He says the other two were lodged deep inside her body, making it difficult to extract them. “But I continued my treatment and finally after five surgeries, even the last bullet was taken out of her body. My dear Geeta is still alive and very much healthy.”
Even though Dr Sarma loves his job, he knows it comes with risks.
He says he’s probably risked his life various times as part of the job. “I often wonder, how did I survive?” he muses.
“Once I had to spend the whole night on a tree in order to try and sedate a wild elephant that we were trying to capture for treatment.”
But despite the dangers involved, he says the work has been fulfilling. He hopes to inspire his daughter, who has completed a degree in veterinary science, and often helps him with his work.
“I want my daughter to carry forward the responsibility of treating elephants after me.”
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