Fred Ekpe Ayokhai, a senior lecturer with the department of History and International Studies at the Federal University of Lafia (FULAFIA), has sparked social media outrage over the treatment melted at a young girl.
Truetells Nigeria reports that the lecturer was on Friday, October 21, 2022, captured flogging the 20-year-old girl who allegedly beat his daughter over a man.
This publication gathered that the victim, who is identified as Blessing Mathias, confronted Ayokhai’s daughter, Emmanuella Onawegie, for trying to snatch her boyfriend, identified as IG.
Blessing had discovered Emmanuella has been engaging in a private conversation with her boyfriend and demanded that the number should be deleted from her phone but the latter refused, which led to a fight.
In the video making the rounds online, Emmanuella was seen alongside her father Ekpe Ayokhai, and other family members mercilessly beating Blessing in her home before she was forced into their car.
They later drove into an unknown forest where the senior lecturer used a pair of scissors to tear her dress from her body as the lady cried profusely begging him.
Pastor Slumps, Dies In Kogi State
Meanwhile, the pastor in charge of Living Faith in Lokoja, Pastor Fred Attabo on Friday died at age 68.
The associate pastor of the church, Edwin Okolo while confirming Attabo’s death described it as “very shocking.”
Okolo, however, did not disclose much detail about the death of Pastor Attabo but promised to release a statement.
Naija News learnt that Attabo slumped and died in his office shortly after a morning prayer programme held at the church at Lokogoma, in the Lokoja metropolis of Kogi.
A parishioner who spoke on the incident said, “Our senior pastor slumped in his office shortly after Friday’s Covenant Hour of Prayer this morning.
“When it happened, we took him to the Specialist Hospital, Lokoja, for medical attention.
“We accepted his death in good faith and have taken his body to the mortuary at Specialist Hospital, Lokoja.”