Why Soldier Entered My House, Burned It Down, Then Burnt My Wife - Sunday Okebata

This story is horrific.

Can you imagine waking up in the night to see a soldier not only inside your house but pointing a gun at you asking a question you don't know the answer to? Well, that's the story of the victim in today's story.

It's such a wild story and I want to quickly dive into it so without further ado, here's what happened.

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A man by the name of Sunday Okebata from Izombe in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State is crying out after his house was burnt down and his wife was killed by the military on October 8 following a clash between the military and some community youths.

According to Sunday,

I was away at work when my beloved wife called me and told me that she had been burnt by soldiers. She told me that soldiers who were on a reprisal in our community came to our house and told her that one of the youths they were looking for ran into our house. She said that one of the soldiers pointed a gun at her, asking her to provide the suspect or he would shoot her. This was happening in the presence of our two children and my mother, Mrs. Catherine Okebata, who had had a stroke since 2014. My wife knelt down, begging the solider not to shoot her, my mother and my children. She explained to them that nobody ran into our house. My sick mother also begged the solider not to kill them as there was no youth who ran into our house. My mother also told the angry officer that none of her two sons had any criminal record, begging him to spare their lives.

The soldier walked out the room where he met my mother, wife and children and went outside. He then set the house on fire and left. My wife tried to rescue my children and mother who could not walk without an aid. My wife succeeded in rescuing my mother but was unfortunate as her clothes got caught in the fire and burnt her terribly. Her face, body, chest, back and everywhere was burnt.

Initially, I didn’t know it was an emergency situation until I received a call from somebody who asked if I was Faith’s husband. When I replied in the affirmative, he asked me to rush to a nearby hospital in my village where my was wife had been rushed to. I immediately called one of the senior army officers at 34 Artillery Brigade Command, Obinze and reported that soldiers had destroyed my house and burnt my wife but the army officer quickly rebuffed my claim and told me that the soldiers were not after women and children. He told me that my people had killed some of his colleagues and seized military riffles. I quickly rushed to the village and on reaching the hospital, I met my beloved wife in a terrible condition. Fire had burnt her body. I immediately evacuated her to the Federal Medical Centre in Owerri for proper medical attention.

At the hospital, it was discovered that the burn injuries affected her badly, down to her liver. The doctor told me that though all hope should not be lost but my wife’s condition was terrible. The doctor said that only little percentage of patients who had similar case as my wife survived it. We kept hope alive but unfortunately, she died five days later, leaving for me, four children, including our last born, who is just two years old.

What a horrible horrible HORRIBLE story.

How can people destroy a family's life like this simply because they were looking for a SUSPECTED youth that they SUSPECTED ran into their house. Not even that they knew for sure or that the family was harboring the youth, but that they SUSPECTED it. Now because of that they've gone ahead and they've killed an innocent woman and left her four children motherless. What kind of wickedness is this?

I was so upset when I read the story and immediately I finished reading it, I knew I wanted to come and discuss it with you because it's really doing my head in. What do you think about this? It's so horrible! Let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment on my Facebook post.

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