SOCIETY WATCH; OBA OF BENIN'S CURSE ON KIDNAPPERS IS WORKING WONDERS

i hear the curse place placed by the Oba of Benin on Kidnappers operating his kidnappers has started being fruits. Kidnappers still plying their trade are being apprehended daily by the police while others are voluntarily giving up themselves to the palace for the curse to be broken so they can continue with their lives.
The Oba of Benin is the spiritual head of the Edo people and when he gets upset on a matter a places a curse, I am told it sticks. And so while it seems, Edo state is now reveling in peace from kidnappers the south eastern states have been over run by kidnappers. I hear in Abia state all the old men and women have been moved from the village by their children to Lagos, it’s not for ill health or vacation. It’s because of the fear of kidnappers.
In Abia, some of those village based kidnappers ask for N50,000. That’s the value they now place on human life. If only they could import the revered Oba of Benin, to kindly come place a curse on their own kidnappers… but as we all know…if only wishes where horses, the aged and fearful in Abia State will ride. They will have to make do with their own home grown solution.

DRIVING A NEW CAR IN ABA IS AS GOOD AS DIGGING YOUR OWN GRAVE
It might be safe, relatively to drive an SUV or any other brand new car in Lagos. Aba, where chief Theodore Orji, holds sway as governor, it’s like writing and signing your own death certificate. A young man I was told recently came back from Europe with a fancy car, he wanted to don’t blame him, show he had it made, but his dad, told him he could not park the car in his compound because the boy was putting the whole family at risk from armed robbers who are sure to visit. The story was recounted to me by a lagos car dealer who had taken a car to deliver to a client in Aba. The client was out of town for the weekend and he was stuck with the car for three days. His uncle in Aba told him, he was sorry, he could not allow him to park the car in his compound. He started driving around Aba from hotel to hotel, one look at the car and they will send him back into the street. They are also afraid of armed robbers storming the hotel to not only steal the car but also ransack the hotel looking for the owner and the millions of naira he brought home. It was in the bar of the hotel he met the guy from Europe, his case is further compounded, every night the hotel authorities change the guys room.
With all this insecurity and crime in the East, I am told very reliably that most Igbo business men and their family have made up their minds not to travel home for Christmas. That is how bad it has become.