"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
who can know it?"
Jeremiah 17 v 9
As every other evil known to
man, Nigeria has recorded its first case
of murder by facebook with the senseless killing
of Cynthia Osokogu by 2 suspected
undergraduates paraded by the police as Mr Nwabufor Okwumo a 300 Level student
of accountancy at the University Of Lagos Akoka and Ezekiel Odera, a 300Level
student of accountancy at the Anambra
State University, who lured her to Lagos with promises of doing business, who then drugged, robbed, assaulted and brutally
terminated the life of a promising young woman, who was the only daughter of Major
General Frank Osokogu.
In this part of the world, it is indeed its first and as usual it has brought to the limelight
the use of social media in constructive nation building instead of practicing
some of the evils that come with it.
In February 2012, an American couple Billy Clay
Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth were killed when they deleted Janelle Potter
from their “friends list”
Another case of facebook murder
was recorded in the United Kingdom in March 2010 when Peter Chapman, who had a history as a
sex offender lured 17 year old Ashleigh
Hall for a secret rendezvous, who he eventually murdered.
These cases seem isolated in a
way, but ever since the inception of facebook, it has had a history of its own
evils. From murder to domestic violence, burglary, fraud, rape, arson, and a long list of hideous other
crimes
It’s quite disheartening the
story of Cynthia who could have been spared the terror she experienced the last
few hours of her life, If only the hands of time can be turned around.
May her gentle soul rest in
peace.
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