Dear Agatha,
I write you with pains in my heart, because these days, things are very bad. The only thing that is in my mind now, as I write you, is how to take revenge. And I mean nothing but absolute revenge. My story is painful indeed.
It all started one afternoon after a revision class in preparation for our second semester examinations. On our way back from class that afternoon, we ran into one of the so-called gospel musicians based in the southeastern part of the country.
He stopped to offer us a ride in his car. He asked for our names and particulars and we gladly obliged him with all our details. Since he wasn’t exactly heading our way, he dropped us at the nearest junctions.
Since we exchanged phone numbers, he began to call us daily without failing.
On Friday May 31, 2008, he invited my good friend over to one of the fast-food centres in Onitsha. My friend went but not before informing me. He always makes it a point of duty to tell me everything about himself including where he was going.
He even asked me to go with him but because I had my ICH 112 exams to write that day, I didn’t make it with him. He went to the place to see the devilish musician. They ate, drank, and at the end, my friend came back with some money and take away food for us. Recharge cards also didn’t fail to come for us. It seemed both my friend and I were operating a mini call-centre, because we were never short of recharge cards.
He also made several promises to my friend. Because of the stories I have heard about this particular musician, I cautioned my friend against having a close association with him, but he failed to heed the advice. He told me that all that I have heard about him were all blatant lies.
On Sunday August 3, 2008, he invited my friend over to Heritage Hotel, Omagba Phase I, but this time, my friend failed to tell me because I was already in Abuja for an Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Society of Petroleum Engineers then. He took my friend in and drugged him after which he slept with him. Imagine a person that called himself a Christian musician sleeping with a fellow man. This was never my problem at first, but beyond that my friend died due to that incident.
My friend is dead now and his murderer is parading the city deceiving people as a religious musician while he is the real devil’s advocate.
My friend started bleeding from the anus after the act prompting the musician to call on his own friends to help clean up the act. Days after the incident, when I came back from Abuja, precisely on Thursday, August 7, 2008, my friend told me everything that transpired between him and the musician, though he pleaded a secrecy deal.
But since my friend is no more, I don’t have a reason to keep quiet again. I want this musician and all his gang (friends) involved to pay for killing my friend. I have enough evidence to prove that they are gays. Yes, I mean they are homosexuals.
What I need is an advice on what to do. My aim is to make sure he pays for the death of my best friend whom I know within me was used for rituals to boost the sales of his music.
Also I want members of the public especially young men to benefit from the story, especially as it affects how their relationship as well as association with strange friends.
Kelvin.
Dear Kelvin,
How did your friend die? Why did he insist you kept it a secret and why did you fail to report the incident to the police even against your friend’s insistence, especially when you knew that this musician used him for ritual purposes?
Can you honestly say you and your friends didn’t know the motive of this musician when he took to inviting this friend over, buying him food as well as sending constant recharge cards to all of you? What did you all think, that he was simply being nice and benevolent?
Didn’t you also spend in the booty he got from the musician? If you had all the stories about him, why didn’t you try harder to stop your friend by giving him graphic details of what to expect? You could have enlisted the help of his family members and also your other friends to talk sense into his head?
What stopped you and your other friends from going to the musician to him a stern warning? Since your friend was always in the habit of telling you everything about his movement, what stopped him from informing you of this particular one? He still could have told you through a phone call irrespective of whether you were within the vicinity or not. What business had the two that necessitated him accepting his invitation to a hotel? Was he forced into the room? If he was drugged they must have gone into the privacy of the room first to drink before he could be drugged.
I ask all these questions to help put things in their right perspectives. You are alleging ritual murder. Apart from the blood from his anus, were there any other evidences to establish ritual murder?
And have you told his family anything about your suspicions and whom you think could be responsible for the death of their son? If you had, what were the reactions of the family?
From the moment he started calling you all, particularly your friend on daily basis, inviting him out for lunch, buying him excess to take home and lavishing recharge cards on all of you, the alarm bells should have been sounded that this musician had an ulterior motive. There is no way, he wouldn’t have made obvious his real interest in your friend which could have been the reason you sounded the warning to him.
Your friend didn’t take your warning serious because you didn’t attach too much importance to it. Had you, from the onset, refused to entertain any discussion on the musician from the beginning or declined the offer of free recharge cards and kept telling everybody who cared to listen to what you felt about the presence of the musician in your lives, he would not only have taken you serious but also known how to discharge the musician from your lives especially his.
Besides, you were among the group he offered a free ride. Since you claimed to know him, and also had knowledge of his sore reputation, why did you allow your friends into his car so much so you allowed them, including you to give him your actual numbers?
Are you sure all these accusations are not after thought, aimed at getting attention from him or any of his friends?
Sincerely, unless you have concrete evidence to support your claims, be very careful whom you tell. If truly they were indeed responsible for the death of your friend, your life could equally be at risk.
If being gay is the only evidence you have against him and his friends, you have no evidence to establish a case against them because under the criminal law operative in the Southern part of the country, being gay is not a criminal offence. It is only an offence under the penal code of the Northern part of the country. The only damage is a social one but with the level of perversion in the country, it won’t do any lasting damage besides changing his line of musical interest.
On the other hand, the table could be turned against you for trying to blackmail him to parting with money. Since if his words are opposed to yours there is high tendency for people to believe him more than you, at least you don’t have the type of money he has.
And if your late friend requested you keep it a secret, why are you trying now to expose his memory to ridicule? Do you think his family would ever thank you for telling the world that their son indulged in sex with a man before he died? How do you think the knowledge would affect his grieving parents? How do you think they would handle his memories vis-à-vis your revelation?
If you are really serious about helping the memory of your friend, the best way is to set up a campaign in his memory. The campaign would be centre on the need for youngsters to apply wisdom in their choice of friends.
The foundation dedicated to the memory of your friends should place emphasis on his qualities as a person and what he stood for during his lifetime. The foundation should tell people, both men and women the signs to look out for when going into a relationship or friendship.
Also hand over everything to God in prayers. If your friend was actually a victim of ritual killers, God in His own time would provide the public and Police indisputable evidences to prosecute the killer.
Good luck.
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