Juliana Francis
‘Why
we had to kill Tyger’
Kingsley said: “In December 2018, I
met Ajemine at Egbelu Odara Junction in Ogbogoro Town. I was with my friend,
Sunny. The woman told us that her husband was maltreating her and she was
looking for Civil Society Organisation (CSO), I told her that I was no longer
into such. She told me that her husband was taking all her properties and that
he beats her every day.
“I told her that whenever her
husband comes, that she should call us or shout so that people in the community
would come out to help.
“Later on, she called, saying that
she wanted us to beat the man. She told us that her husband used to come to her
house in Ogbogoro to see her and that he also used to come to Abalama, which is
her house, to beat and take all the money she has. In January 2019, she
gave us N50, 000; she said that she would call us whenever the man was with her
in Abalama, which was 45 minutes’ drive.
“One she called that her
husband was with her in Abalama; but we disappointed her. On January 26, 2019,
she called in the afternoon, saying that the man was coming. She said we should
come to beat him. We then took a cab from Chuba to Buguma, and took a
motorcycle ride to Abalama. We waited for her call until 12am; she then called
that her husband was sleeping, that we should come. When we got there, both of
them were naked. They had just finished having sex.
“The room was dark; the woman
flashed a touch for us. We saw the man in bed; Sunny wrapped the man’s face
with a wrapper and a pillow. I started beating the man. He woke up and started
struggling. He was shouting. The man removed what Sunny tied on his face. Sunny
and the man recognized each other. They started speaking their Kalabari
Language. I didn’t understand what they were saying or talking about. And then Sunny
said we should kill the man since he had seen his face. I held him down, while
Sunny strangled him. We called the woman, who was outside. We told her
that her husband was died. She said that she didn’t ask us to kill him. She
brought out a shovel and showed us a space to bury him.
Woman
had sex with her husband’s killer less than 24hour his murder
“The next day, which was Sunday, she
called and gave us N30, 000. In the evening, she called again, that she wanted
me to come and have sex with her. We met in a hotel and had sex for two
straight hours. A week later, we met again in that same hotel in Egbelu Town.
We also had sex for the third time. I stopped responding to her calls because
she wanted to turn me to her new husband. Since the day I killed that man, I
have not forgiven myself. I have gone to church to pray and asked God for
forgiveness. Now that police have arrested me, I believe that God has truly
forgiven me.”
How
police unravel murder of ‘missing husband’
Ajemine was trailed and arrested by
operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Special Intelligence
Response Team (IRT), headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abba Kyari.
The Unit ventured into the case after receiving directives from the IGP,
Mohammed Adamu.
Police launched investigation in
February after Tyger appeared to have mysteriously disappeared off the face of
the earth. The deceased disappeared after a political event within his
community.
The police said: “Tyger, at the time
of his death, had a misunderstanding with his wife, Ajemine. The tensed situation
in their matrimonial home, led to his moving out. He relocated to Port Harcourt.
The 2019 General Elections provided him an opportunity to reconcile with Ajemine. Rather
than his wife to accept the reconciliation move, she made arrangements
with two other persons to kill Tyger in their Abalama residence.
“It was while her husband was
sleeping that the killers sneaked into the apartment and strangled him. They
took his corpse to back of the apartment and buried him. After he was buried,
Ajemine took his car to a nearby market and left it there. She also sent
messages to his brothers, using Tyger’s phones; posing as Tyger, she typed that
he would be travelling of the state on a business trip.”
When Tyger’s brothers waited for
days without hearing from him, they became uneasy. They repeatedly tried
calling his mobile phones, but they were always switched off. They alerted the
police and IRT operatives were detailed to investigate the case.
The operatives thought it was
another kidnapped case, but six months into the investigations, however, they
unravel the mystery behind Tyger’s disappearance. They discovered that he was
murdered.
After Ajemine was grabbed, she
mentioned those she hired to kill Tyger. She also led police to the killer, Kingsley.
The killer took police to where Tyger was buried and his remains were exhumed.
Ajemine, after Tyger was dead, sold
one of his phones and inserted her SIM into the second phone. IRT operatives
used the phone to nail her. It is also instrumental to mention that before
Tyger left to see Ajemine, he confided his whereabouts to his friend, Ibiye Dokubo,
a politician. Dokubo’s knowledge that Tyger went to see Ajemine and the tracking
of Tyger’s phone to Ajemine made her to become a person of interest.
‘I
only asked that my husband be beaten, not killed’
While fielding questions from
journalists, Ajemine explained that she met Tyger in 2014. They fell in love
and got married the following year. Tyger and Ajemine came into the marriage
with two kids each from previous relationships.
Ajemine, who works with the Rivers
State Primary Health Care, in Asari Toru Local Government Area, revealed that
Tyger was killed and buried in a shallow grave on January 25, 2019.
She said: “Whenever my husband wants
to have sex with me, he would beat and then rape me. He later abandoned me and
moved into a new apartment in Port Harcourt, with another woman.”
She said: “Before I accepted to
marry him, he pleaded with me to become a mother to his two children. He said
that the children were out of school because there was no woman taking care of
them. I accepted and moved into his house. I started taking care of his
children. I used to spend two weeks with the children and then I will move to
my own house to be with my own children. When he proposed that I should into
his home, I accepted and moved in with my second son.
“My husband worked with Elf Oil and
Gas. He had a court case with his company. At a point, he couldn’t pay his rent.
By January 2016, he was sacked from his job. We relocated to our village in
Buguma and his children were all staying in my house.”
She recollected that in April 2016,
Tyger got some money from his former company and went to pay her bride price.
They would later move to his family’s house. Ajemine said that it was there
that Tyger became aggressive and abusive. She felt that it was because he no
longer had a job.
She said: “He shouted when there was
no need and hits me when he shouldn’t. I advised him to look for a job. He went
into oil bunkering, while still hunting for a white collar job. We moved to
Port Harcourt, while retaining a home at Abalama. By December, 2017, he started
beating me. He stopped me from coming to Port Harcourt to meet him.”
Ajemine further explained: “Last
April, my son and his daughter sat for JAMB. My son passed and his daughter
failed. We agreed to buy a pre-degree form; but he stopped responding to
our demands. I took his daughter to the Port Harcourt house to see him,
there we discovered that a woman was living with him.”
Angry, Ajemine packed all the woman’s
clothes and took them to his family. Tyger came for the clothes and burnt those
of Ajemine.
She further alleged that whenever he
came to their Abalama’s residence, he would pick one or two items, and then
sell them. Whenever Ajemine protested, he would beat her black and blue, she
said.
She narrated: “I moved out of that
house in Abalama, to Port Harcourt after he got a charm to kill me. He didn’t
know where I was staying. In January 2019, he called that he wanted to collect
a metal ladder that was with me.
“Before then, I had met Kingsley at
Egbelu area of Port Harcourt. Egbelu was the area I rented an apartment. I told
him that I was new in the area and that my husband would want to come there to harass
me.
“Kingsley promised to assist me. On
the day Tyger came to collect the ladder, he wanted to have sex with me, but I refused.
He tore my clothes; I ran out and called Kingsley. I was crying on the phone.
He came with his friend and they started beating my husband. Tyger was crying; I
couldn’t bear it. I went outside. When I came back, I asked for my husband,
they told me that he was dead. They warned me not to tell anyone if I didn’t
want my children and I, to be killed.
“They took my husband to Sandfiled,
close to our house and buried him, but I didn’t follow them to the exact spot.
I then took his car to an abandoned market in Egbelu, where I parked it. I left
the key inside the car. I then took my husband’s phones, and sent text messages
to his family members. I made it to look like Tyger was sending the messages to
them.
“I sold one of the phones for N15,
000. Kinsley, who killed Tyger, started calling me for money. I gave him a
total sum of N150, 000. He also started having sex with me. In February
2019, my husband’s friend, Ibiye Dokubo, came on Facebook, accusing me of
knowing what happened to my husband. There were other people also
accusing me. I went on Facebook and countered what they said. I went to see a
lawyer and wrote a petition against Ibiye Dokubo. I was still waiting for the
police to invite Dokubo, when IRT operatives came to arrest me.”
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