NIGERIAN MAN AND HIS GERMAN WIFE GUNNED DOWN BY LANDLORD

In a feat of rage, a decrepit octogenarian German landlord pulled his gun and shot Steve Uhegbu, a graduate of Economics of the University of Nigeria dead pointblank. He was not done as he also got his (Steve) German wife down before police took him.

The issue of the killing is over. Steve is stone dead, his body chilled and frozen stiff in a coldroom, but the next agony for the family is that the time the German authorities gave them to take his body may elapse. The family has not found an equivalent of N2m to pick the body back to Nigeria. And the Germans threaten that if they don’t hasten to take the body, it would be fed to the flames in a crematorium. In Germany today, it is common to cremate (burn) bodies than bury them, especially the commoner who could not afford a burial space. But poor Steve’s family says it is unthinkable that the body of a man from their part of the world would be burnt as last rite. To them, it sounds absurd and akin to roasting in hell. While they ask for more time, the Germans won’t have that. Their word on the last date is definite and the grieving father in Nigeria is still asking them to see his plight and give him more time.


In tears Pa Uhegbu, a distraught bereaved old man said: “My son is supposed to bury me. But after my efforts to train him and Steve died this way, I accept my fate, but only plead that I be allowed the grace of seeing his remains and interring it in my ancestors’ soil. That is the way of life of my people and I would be glad to have that request granted.”

Steve relocated to Germany where he met his untimely death as his landlord, a German reportedly shot him and his wife over an argument
On that fateful day when he was shot,  “Steve received an outrageous water bill and decided to sort it out with the landlord. Serious argument ensued and the landlord who is about 81 years old brought out his gun and shot him. Steve staggered out from the landlord’s house and went to meet his wife downstairs. Alarmed, his German wife picked up the phone to call the police and an ambulance. Unfortunately, the trigger-happy old man was not satisfied so he came down and shot the wife before she could make an emergency call to the police.

“The two kids in the house who saw when their mother was killed ran outside shouting for help. It was then that the neighbours who heard them called the police. The police arrived the scene and discovered the landlord calmly waiting for them inside his apartment. He admitted to the killings and handed over his short gun. He is currently in jail pending the determination of the case. 



Sad story!!! all in the search for greener pastures...
I pray they raise the money to bring his corspe home........