Two Brothers Killed In Lagos After They returned From US (What a Chilling tale)

This story always sound like a low rated, poorly written script from any low budget Holly Wood or Nolly Wood or the likes to me, but it is not.

But then from all reasonable indications, it is extremely obvious that these two promising young men here, were viciously murdered in a manner much too graphic to describe, claiming any extenuating circumstances like drowning in any mysterious water at dawn for whatever damn purpose is merely an afterthought or a bloody unconvincing cover up. So, I got interested asking divers extensive and excruciating probing questions, pictures and video from the mother of the kids, when my attention was drawn to it.

First, it is very instructive to note that, I have tried as much as possible to weave both the chronicles of the step mother of the two young men and those from their biological mother into one short narrative.

STORY LINE:

On Friday Dec 19th 2014, just few minutes after  7 pm, perhaps  in the spirit of the Yuletide ,the mother of the two unfortunate kids (Mrs Awosanya) ,talked with her two kids (Abiodun 24 and Ayinde 21) on phone.

The duo told their mother that they were in the Church with their father and step mother for a night vigil.

Now between the hours of 5am and 6am the next day, the Nollywood started.

So, on Saturday Dec 20th 2014, the father left the Church very early in the morning, leaving the two children behind with their step mother, allegedly for an intended ‘spiritual bath’ on that fateful Saturday morning. Apparently, the children were not aware of such, before hands or they were duly informed not to alert their mother for a reason best known to those involved. If not the kids ought to have carried their mother along for such an exceptional unusual early morning spiritual spree. But then, the biological mother of the two kids to be taken to a river for a ‘spiritual bath’ was not duly informed, even when she just promptly called to inquire after her kids.  

Well, on that fateful hour, the step mother took her two step kids in her car and drove them down to an unmarked small river (it is a very small river, hence it has no particular name), deep in the forest, somewhere where sand dredging activities normally take place, around Abraham Adesanya Road, in Ajah on the Lekki-Epe corridor in Lagos, as the rendezvous where the purported spiritual bath would take place. (Note the step mother has two kids as well, but none of the two followed the family train to the river).

But the ‘spiritual bath’ would not be, because the two children died.

DROWNED! So they would say.

What came out of the water

The dead body of the kids, wearing nothing but boxers were said to have been retrieved from the water by the driver of a tricycle (popularly known as ‘Keke Napep’), who perchance just drove by when the incidence occurred, within 30 minutes of the incidence. The funniest side of this particular scenario here, as regards the angle of Keke Napep is that, the terrain of that particular river is not the one that tricycle normally frequent at such an unholy hour of between 5 am and 6am (remember it was during the December harmattan cold).

This is apart from the fact that any river, so ‘turbulent’ to claim two grown up men at a time, needs nothing less than a search party of professional divers (not just a single tricycle rider or just anyone….remember that the phobia of what has just happened was enough to scare any sympathizer away from plunging into such a river that has just swallowed two healthy young souls, most especially considering the time), to retrieve such bodies and mostly lasting for a long period of hours if not days.

Meanwhile, after the two kids were retrieved from the water, sometimes, around 6am, the step mother now made a frantic call to the father of the two kids, informing him that the kids were dead!

She then carried the two kids in her car, to their father. At home, they were laid on the bed for the other families to arrive.

When the families, including those from the mother of the kids arrived and those that would take the dead bodies to the mortuary were set:

Alas, they started making some stark discoveries, the neck of the older one (Biodun) was not properly or firmly fixed to the shoulders, in fact indicating very explicitly that the neck had been broken. Probably or perhaps as an indicator of the great violence and brutality with which he was mortally felled, may be due to extensive resistance from him. Perhaps!

The second boy, Ayinde, just like the older one, was just foaming, with blood oozing out from his nostrils. And then, the family became highly suspicious and started taking records (one of the early witnesses is the source of the attached pictures and there are more including motion picture).

Well, the corpses were later transferred to the mortuary. And still in the mortuary as I write.

Around 7am, a comprehensive report was made at Panti Police Station, by Adekunle Area of Lagos by the mother of the kids.

And the real drama really commenced.

In essence, from all indications, the issue is being compromised by the police in cahoots with the main custodian of the kids who took them to the rivers in the first place (i.e the step mother), mainly because the mother of the kids is indigent and hence helpless. While the step mother, is said to be a princess from one of the ruling houses in Ajah. And she is said to be high wired and well-connected in the society.

In Nigeria, in a murder case like this, where the major facilitator of such murder is well wired, judgment can easily, very easily be bought.

So far, from direct eye witness account who came in contact with the two kids within the first hours of their death, (and also from the pictures that were taken immediately after this sordid event), there is no single telling signs of someone that has drowned inside a water e.g. swollen tummy, whitish skin, reddish eye ball, dirt coverings and the likes associated with a drowned victim or synonymous with just anyone that has stayed in such water for quite a while.

After listening to those involved, I personally believe and it is apparently clear to anyone that critically look through that the whole thing was staged managed, albeit very poorly. There is no doubt that those two kids were murdered, then thrown in the water very early in the morning, then quickly retrieved from the water. 

That they drowned is seriously out of the question.

I would therefore, implore all our friends everywhere in the world (their busy schedules notwithstanding), to wade in, in any way they could, to make sure that justice is done to these two kids…if for nothing ,but for humanity!

(Cover picture: The two kids Abiodun and Ayinde while in the U.S)

Written by Shola Adebowale