'Have sex or die!' - Gunman holds businessman and wife hostage

Prosper Mkwaiwa and his wife Tina relate their ordeal at Legae Medi-Clinic after being shot by a man who demanded that they make love in front of him. Picture by Antonio Muchave.
Credit: Sundayworld

When you think you have heard it all, another queer one hits you in the face.

 

A popular south African businessman and his wife are currently recuperating in a Pretoria hospital after a gun man shot them for not complying with his demand.

But forgive the businessman for being confused, it is not the sort of demand armed men make of their victims very often. This particular gunman requested the businessman and his wife to undress and make love for his entertainment!

The yet unidentified Pretoria man stormed into the hotel room of businessman Prosper Mkwaiwa and his wife Tina and ordered them to make love in front of him or face the barrel.

 After dilly-dallying, the two were shot in their right legs and were rushed to Legae Medi-Clinic in Mabopane, north of Pretoria, where they are recuperating.

According to Sundayworld,  the incident happened at the Morula Sun Casino in Mabopane on Friday night.

Speaking to Sunday World from his hospital bed, Mkwaiwa says he was lying on the bed in the hotel room waiting for Tina, who was with her friends in another room.

He says after a few minutes Tina waltzed into the room with another man wearing a security uniform.

"I thought the guy was escorting her because he followed her into the room but I was wrong," he says.

Mkwaiwa says the man closed the door, drew his firearm and ordered Tina to lie prostrate on the cold floor.

 

He said the man pointed the gun at him and told him he was going to kill him and his wife and then turn the gun on himself.

"I asked him 'what is the problem? Do you want money? Tell us so we can sort you out and you can leave us alone'.

"He then took the magazine out and said 'you see I'm removing other bullets from the magazine and only three will remain in it. One is for you, one for her and one for me'.

"I pleaded with him not kill us and tell us what it is that we had done to him.

"He simply said 'I know who you are, guys, that's why I came here for you'," says Mkwaiwa, who is sporting a shiner.

Tina, who was lying on a bed next to her hubby's at the hospital, interjected: "He said 'I want you guys to make love in front of me'. Imagine me undressing and making love to my husband in front of him! I was so scared. That man is sick upstairs. Why would somebody do that to us? We don't have enemies," she said, crying hysterically.

Mkwaiwa, who was staring into the air as Tina was relating her version, also interrupted: "You know this man held us hostage for about an hour as we pleaded with him not to kill us.

"But as I was talking to him he kept on moving the gun from his left hand to his right one and then from the right to left one. It's like it was too heavy for him.

"When he repeated that we should make love in front of him, I jumped and grabbed the hand that was holding the gun. A bullet went out and hit her in the leg. He then turned the gun towards me and shot me twice in my right leg," he says, grimacing.

Mkwaiwa says he eventually wrenched the gun from the assailant.

"He then hit the glass door with his head and disappeared.

"I'm glad I rescued my wife and we are both alive.

"You can imagine what could have happened if I hadn't grabbed the gun from him. He would have probably shot and killed us," he says.

Mkwaiwa says they were rushed to the clinic in an ambulance called by the hotel management.

We drugged, beat General’s daughter before her death – Suspects

The suspects. Inset: Items recovered from them.
| credits: Eniola Akinkuotu

The suspects who allegedly killed Cynthia Osokogu, daughter of Maj.-Gen. Frank Osokogu (retd.), on July 22, 2012, have admitted that they drugged and beat the 24-year-old girl before she died.

The suspects – Nwabuzo Okumo and Odera Ezekiel – described the incident as a mistake. They claimed that they only wanted to rob her and flee from the hotel before things went awry.

Okumo, a 300-level Accounting student of the University of Lagos, said he met the deceased on BlackBerry Messenger and established a relationship with her before inviting her to Lagos.

He said, “We met through a group on BlackBerry Messenger. We had formed a kind of friendship online.

“When she told me that she was coming to Lagos to buy some goods for her boutique in Abuja, I invited her to Casmillo Hotel, Amuwo Odofin, where an incident led to her death. It was not planned that way. It was a big mistake.

“She arrived in Lagos from Abuja on Sunday, July 21 and I took her to the hotel. I gave her a pack of Ribena juice, which had been injected with a drug I use on women that makes them dizzy, weak and wipes their memory afterwards. I have used the drugs on four girls but it did not kill them.

“I stayed in the room with her for about 12 hours. We talked; I used a vibrator (sex toy) on her. I noticed that she did not drink all the juice and so the drug was not as effective as expected.

“I had no choice than to engage her in a struggle. I had to tie her so that she would not be able to follow me after robbing her.”

However, Ezekiel, a 400-level student of Accounting at the Anambra State University, said he was called by Okumo to help him tie up the girl. He said it was when Cynthia was struggling with them that they beat her up before chaining her.

He said he gave Okumo two packs of Ribena juice that were injected with 10 tablets of xxx.

He said, “I didn’t know the victim. The morning it happened, he (Okumo), said I should come and help him bind the girl because he wanted to steal her belongings. In the process of binding her, she was struggling so we had to beat her up and it was in the process that she passed out. We used our hands in beating her; we did not use any weapon.

“She was still breathing as at the time I left the hotel.”

While parading the suspects, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Umar Manko, said the suspects specialise in luring young ladies and robbing them. He added that it was unclear if the boys killed their previous victims or not.

“The young lady was found dead and chained in a room in the hotel. Someone called the hotel reception and said, ‘Go and get the dead body of a bastard from your room’. When the lady was found, her identity could not be ascertained,” he said.

It was learnt that a yellow card belonging to the victim was found in the hotel room. From the card, he said the police called immigration authorities and got the passport number and details of the victim.

Manko said, “Her identity was not known but from the telephone number used in calling the hotel, we started our investigations until we got her passport number through the Immigration Service and were able to establish her identity.

“Through CCTV footage, we discovered that two young men entered into her room. We were able to trace the suspects through the phone number that called the hotel.”

Our correspondent learnt that the police initially arrested Ezekiel’s girlfriend. She aided them in apprehending Ezekiel who had run to Anambra State.

Punch Metro learnt that Ezekiel then led the police to Okumo in FESTAC.

Manko said, “The boys are cousins and both are from Anambra State. We’ve been told that this is not their first time but we’ve not been able to able to establish if they always kill their victims. It’s a very long investigation and it’s still ongoing.

“The case is a lesson to people using social networks to be very careful. The suspects will be charged to court for murder.”

The CP however added that no employee of the hotel was involved in the crime.

The items recovered from the suspects are seven driving licences (three belonging to Ezekiel, four belonging to Okumo with different names); the deceased’s belongings, including her shoes(found in Okumo’s house); 17 mobile phones, two Diamond Bank rubber stamps, two syringes, a pack of Ribena, 22 SIM cards, a chain, 12 debit and credit cards.

South African man falls asleep after rape

A 34-year-old South African man has given new meaning to the term ‘sleeping on the job’ when he fell asleep soon after allegedly raping a woman in Cerhu village, near Butterworth in the Eastern Cape, according to the police.

He was arrested recently after his 51-year-old victim alerted the police.

Butterworth police station spokesman Captain Jackson Manatha said the crime was committed in the woman's home. The alleged rapist fell into a restful sleep shortly after, snoring through the night.

"We found the suspect still in deep slumber on our arrival, and he was woken up by the men in blue," he said.

He will appear in the Butterworth Magistrate's Court soon to face a charge of rape.

The whole exercise must have been too exhausting for the idiot. Lol.

This gentleman cried for help, but none came

Majority Leader of Plateau House of Assembly Hon. Gyang Fulani recently cried for assistance for his defenceless constituents who were being slaughtered by Fulani Herdsmen on a regular basis.

Many would have thought he was being melodramatic when he went as far as calling for protection from the international community through the United Nations during one of his submissions on the floor of the state assembly. Some would have thought that that call was a slight on our president as it more or less indicated that he had no trust in his assurance to rein in the violence, nor in the ability of constituted authorities to save his people.

Now, the gentleman is dead, killed by the self-same assailants that he had consistently cried to authorities to save his people from. He was killed together with a serving senator, representing Plateau North in Nigeria’s upper chamber, Dr Gyang Dantong and scores of other hapless Nigerians. About 100 people were reportedly killed by the herdsmen in two days of orgy of violence against defenceless people, including women, the aged and children. All these happening in a country with constituted authorities. Would it have been any worse in Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature?