WHEN LOVE IS WICKED

Katherine Ijedinma, Sandra's surviving twin sister

When Brick and Lace, the popular American sisters, sang ‘Love is Wicked’ I imagined it was for a scenario like this:

Henry fell in love with Sandra. How they met? No one knows yet.

Girl usually visits her boyfriend to get some TLC until one day some hoodlums busted into his apartment and ruffled her up for some purported ransom they claim her boyfriend Henry absconded with and that was when it dawned on her that her well-to-do lover was into the illegal kidnapping trade.

She called her family and confided in them her predicament. Quickly they rushed to Delta State to pick her up and brought her down to Lagos, Igando precisely, to treat her and probably distance her from Henry.

Just when she was settling into her new environment, the home of one of her elder siblings, and probably getting over the shock of learning what her boyfriend did for a living, an unwanted visitor shows up with an AK-47 riffle.

The first person he accosted when he jumped into the compound was Sandra’s twin sister whom she accused was responsible for the death of his relationship with his former lover. He accused the young lady whom was carrying her elder sister’s child of convincing her twin sister not to marry Henry, and she claims he told her he was going to shoot her. He ordered her to lift up her dress that he intended to shoot her belly, she obeyed and he carried out his threat.

She woke up later in the hospital to learn that the bullet had hit her thigh before she passed out and after he shot her, the heart broken lover had gone after his ex-girlfriend and her elder sister, Mrs. Ozor whom she lived with, and her children as well. Not done, he visited the nearby home of another sibling of Sandra, Mrs. Ngozi Odia and shot her and her children.

He ran away in his SUV before the police got to the crime scene where he had killed seven members of his ex-girlfriends family including her, and the surviving husband of Mrs. Ozor claims the murderer cum kidnapper had been threatening him on the phone.

Wonders shall never cease. Stories like this just keeps popping up every time, they used to be stuffs you only see in the movies but life is now imitating the arts.