Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko

[Funmi Tofowomo Okelola]

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Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko

Written by: 

Hakeem Gbadamosi - Akure

THE Ondo state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Tuesday, assured family of  former vice chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure ( FUTA), Professor Albert Ilemobade that  the perpetrators of the gruesome murder would not go unpunished.

Mimiko, who stated this  during his visit to the house of the deceased in Ijapo Estate in Akure, Ondo state capital, described the late don as a man who devoted his entire life  to the service of humanity.

The governor, who was accompanied by member of the Ondo State Executive, Director of State Security Services, Christian Ojobor, representative of the state Commissioner of Police, among others, said the deceased lived a life worthy of celebration.

He  frowned on  the manner the former vice chancellor was killed, even as he commended the efforts of the security agents in the state, for getting to the root of the incident.

The governor, who later visited the store where the corpse of the deceased was kept by the culprits, enjoined people to always look into the profile and details of whoever they employed as their  domestic workers.

Responding on behalf of the family, the deceased  first son, Adesola Ilemobade  appreciated the governor and his team for the visit and called for justice, describing the death of his father as a great loss

He described  his father as a great man who left a great impact and  heritage that would be followed by his children.

Funmi Tofowomo Okelola

-In the absence of greatness, mediocrity thrives. 

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[Nnaemeka, Obioma G]

I am in Abuja seething with anger as I watch on television the confession of the two scumbags that slaughtered this eminent Nigerian, Professor Albert Ilemobade, in his own home and left his body to decompose in a store while they made away with his car. Professor Ilemobade was their employer and what he got for his kindness was premature death. No punishment is adequate for these two hoodlums, Daniel and Olayemi. It is disheartening to witness the utter contempt we have here for human life. In addition to the Boko Haram mayhem, we are faced with weekly slaughter of Nigerians by trailers and petrol tankers that slam into markets, buses and motor parks. Last week, eighteen promising students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, were taken from us when a trailer, going the wrong way, ran into their bus. Few weeks earlier, a petrol tanker veered into a busy Onitsha market, caught fire and roasted scores of Nigerians to death. Sad. Very sad indeed.

Obi

Obioma Nnaemeka, PhD

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[Funmi Tofowomo Okelola]

Prof. Obi:

Thank you very much. Prof. Ilemobade was my maternal uncle. At this point, I'm heartbroken and sad. From the timeline provided by the killers, I realized that my chat with my uncle on Father's Day was couple of hours before he was killed. I called to wish him Happy Father's Day, and to ascertain that he was enjoying reading the book, The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa by Lugard, that I sent to him. The family is heartbroken. I'm still tempted to call his phone number...

Funmi

[Bode]

Very sad indeed. When my friend Olaitan Oyerinde, former personal secretary of the Governor of Edo State was murdered in his own home, some hoodlums were paraded afterwards by the police. It soon became clear that it was a smokescreen, that there was more to his murder that goes high up.  Not all cases are the same but confessions are never enough. The case must be fully investigated.

[Assensoh, Akwasi B.]

Dear Big Sister Obi:

 

Many thanks for the brief but very lucid account of the murder of Professor Albert Ilemobade in his own home, but left his body to decompose in a store. Please, what has emerged as the motive for such a cruel act? As you indicated with respect to the good Professor providing jobs for his alleged or confessed killers, please in what capacities did he employ the two of them?

 

As a staunch supporter of Amnesty International, I have over the years opposed the death penalty in variety of ways, yet this is a clear indication that the murderers of Professor Ilemobade must also pay the price with their own lives after due process of the law has been exhausted swiftly. What a waste of a precious life!

 

All of us mourn with the immediate (nuclear) and extended family of Professor Ilemobade; and may he rest in perfect peace, Amen!

 

A.B. Assensoh, Chongqing, Southwest of China.

  

 

 

 

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Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko

[Folu Ogundimu]

Ms. FT:

I am so sorry for your loss and for Nigeria's loss. May your uncle's soul rest in peace, his memory edified, your family comforted. May you bear the loss with grace and dignity. 

Best regards

F. 

Sent from my iPhone

[Bode]

We share your loss, Mrs Okeola. May he rest in peace.

[Chika Onyeani]

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[Segun Ogungbemi]

The abduction and the strangulation of the former VC of Federal University of Technology Akure came as a rude shock. The killers did not even show any sense of remorse which was expected of a normal human being. They are hardened criminals. 

A thorough investigation should be made to unearth the perpetrators of this heinous and criminal  act.  

A great lesson to the rest of us. May the Almighty grant his family and friends the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss of this great mind and personality. 

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi

[Dhikru Yagboyaju]

This is Nigeria for you.Largely dehumanized.Human life worths next to nothing.

[Adeshina Afolayan]

The question you now ask is: What's kindness' worth again? Would I still be motivated to be good to other when in actual fact they're intending to drain that milk of kindness from your heart? I witnessed this sort of beastly behaviour in 2000 at Kaduna. That was the period when the ethnic and religious fervour was at its height. A man was killed by the rampaging Hausa youths, and he was fingered by his mai-guard who has a small shop in front of the house to augment his salary. He told them his "Oga" was inside. When I heard the news of Prof. ILEMOBADE'S death and the manner it came about, it was as if my heart stopped.  Can I still stop my car by the roadside to pick hapless people caught in the rain? Am I still permitted by the principles of civility and courtesy to play the good Samaritan? Shouldn't I just temper my "bowel of compassion" with cold and suspicious realism? Adeshina Afolayan Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:"Folu Ogundimu" <ogun...@gmail.com> Date:Wed, 1 Jul, 2015 at 1:23 pm Subject:Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko

[OLADMEJI ABORISADE]

From: Professor Oladimeji Aborisade:  Please, accept my deep sympathy for the  cruel death of Professor Ilemobade through the hands  of those who know him more. There may not be a jungle law in this case  if the concept of those who kill by sword must die  by sword is applied  immediately.   The case of" Apalara" at "Oko Baba", Lagos in 1953 should remind us that  this is a deliberate  destruction of an innocent human being and those involved must be destroyed.  Thank you, Professor oladimeji aborisade.
 

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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 13:22:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko

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[Assensoh, Akwasi B.]

Brother Adeshina:

 

 Sorry oo, for your heavy loss back home, as we mourn with you! By the way, do you still stop by the roadside to give strangers (or "hapless people") rides, anywhere?  When it comes to giving rides to needy people I call strangers, my old wise Yoruba landlord, Baba Ijebu, would say: "No way, unless over my dead body!" A great principle I now use when it comes to real strangers seeking such rides!!! 

 

Example #1: I gave a ride to one of my former students years ago; it was threatening to rain, and I saw her under a small shed at a bus stop. Where she was going was way out of or far from my normal route when going home, but I tried to be a Good Samaritan, or "Mr. Good Man", as Baba Ijebu would say. Upon reaching her apartment, I tried to go closer to the building because it was then raining heavily. In the process, I even slightly dented the front of my car. The young woman opened the front door of the passenger side and, before storming out in anger, she said: "I don't know how you damn foreigners get money to buy such nice cars, and we don't have any cars..." It was an old Volvo, nothing fanciful, by the way!  She forgot that I was not a student like herself, but her former professor!

 

Example #2: Another episode was after my evening class, when it was dark, at night, and I agreed to a request to give a ride to another student, this time a young guy. He instantly started: "Professor A.B., I am in a financial problem. I need money to pay my fee arrears in order to take my final exams. Can you help me?" I asked how he wanted me to help him. "Well, if you hit the pole on the roadside, we can make insurance claim," he told me, smiling, but pointing to a pole nearby. "Is that not insurance fraud?" I asked him. "Oh, never mind. I forgot that you are also dog-gone ordained Baptist minister. too bad," he said very disrespectfully before he slammed the door of my car to get out, as if I owed him anything, but with no thank you, dog! Of course, there are some other uglier examples!!!

 

These young people were not foreigners, mind you! When I narrated the episodes to my wife (herself an American woman), we made a pact never ever for us to give rides to ungrateful strangers, students or not.

 

Maybe, with poverty abound or prevalent back home (in Africa), one may understand such callous behaviors, when exhibited. But why here also, in the land of affluence? It simply seems to be human nature for some people to be beastly, cruel or callous whenever they get ready, hence the poor will be poorer and the rich richer. Amen?

Look at Professor ILEMOBADE's sad end. Well, for me to continue to live, I live by the axioms of Baba ijebu, who never had half of the education some of us have, no more by my own "book long", as he used to describe our doctorates and other professional degrees!!! Always in solidarity with Baba Ijebu!!!!

 

A.B. Assensoh, Chongqing, South of China.  

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[Rex Marinus]

          I beg you sir, stop all "this is Nigeria...dehumanized..." crap. Its so old. Professor Ilemobade's death in the hands of two, possibly mentally ill employees is tragic and unconscionable. But it does not reflect Nigeria, and the worth of human life in Nigeria. It represents a most deadly phenomenon, to which we have not paid  real attention: it is the level of untreated mental ill-health in that country, some of which manifest in crime and recidivism. The state of psychiatric care is atrocious. I have a theory that about 15% of Nigerian adults are clinically mad; some go about and seem normal; some exhibit these characteristics and it is often covered up in what we generally describe as the "Nigerian way," but it is about time that we paid attention to these factors. Only mentally ill people could do what those two did to this eminent, octogenerian scholar. Not even the police have clinical psychologists, equipped enough to debrief these two, and understand the specific drive to this kind of crime and its potential pattern, because it will happen again.
 
         We also need to rethink our notions of "private security" and the problematic "big man syndrome." Many of those we employ to man our gates have criminal pasts, or at least questionable pasts. We have no crime database for  background check. We are often left alone in crucial moments with them. When we discard collective, communal security, for the current garrison existence of the Nigerian "big man," the true victim in the end is eventually the "big man." Finally, the level of mass poverty - specifically, its most dangerous form - the poverty of the mind, has driven many people round the bend, to use a cliché. Everybody in Nigeria who sleeps behind a gated house must have real cause to worry, because  Okafor's law is clear on this matter: those who hide their wealth behind fences give fangs to envy and discontent. Those who have eaten, and are satisfied, and who then go to bed soundly upstairs in their iron towers, indifferent to their neighbours are candidates for suicide. They sleep while most of their neighbors stay awake from churning stomach dry with hunger, and who because they cannot sleep clear their throats meaningfully.
 
          Professor Ilemobade is a victim of something hat has happened to Nigerian society, but it is not a reflection of the state of Nigerian consciousness or reality. Nigerians are not unfeeling, nor is this kind of murderous cruelty widespread to the point where no one now truly cares.  To say, "this is Nigeria for you, largely dehumanized..." is not discontent, it is incontinence. We must stop all these clichéd forms of generalization; it does not do much; it only reflects an unhelpful, cynical, quite empty "I'm-better-than-Nigeria" mindset. I think we must confront this problem. How? I'm not quite sure; but I have a few ideas; and it is a matter of doing what intellectuals in other societies have done to salvage their societies in moments of catastrophe: organize, take charge of the political process by all means necessary, and pursue nation building as a historical imperative. Self-satisfied, "I-told-you-so", or the lachrymal "how-for-do-now?," no longer work, nor do they mean anything, really. Nor do all the theories we spout in this mutual admiration society called the academy about our worlds that have failed of any consequence when we come right down to it.  We must do something, or stay mute.
Obi Nwakanma

 

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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 11:04:35 -0700
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko
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[Anunoby, Ogugua]

Really?

Why is this crime a "rude shock"? It should not be. It is not the first of its kind. It is one more of similar crimes before it. It will not be the last of its kind. Is the outrage expressed below because the victim here is an academic? What about the many others before him. Governor Mimiko cannot be serious. He could not in good conscience claim that a murder such as this one is a surprise to him. He is the the Chief Security Officer of his State. What has he done and continues to do to make life and property safe in his State? It is all very well for the killers to "face the full wrath of the law" as he has threatened but how doe this ameliorate the loss of the victim to the world and especially his family? I would prefer that having expressed his sense of loss, he faithfully governs his State. if he does, he will be well on his way to reducing or eliminating conditions in his State that enable the "successful" perpetration of crimes such as this one.

oa
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Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 11:24 AM
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko

The abduction and the strangulation of the former VC of Federal University of Technology Akure came as a rude shock. The killers did not even show any sense of remorse which was expected of a normal human being. They are hardened criminals.
A thorough investigation should be made to unearth the perpetrators of this heinous and criminal act.
A great lesson to the rest of us. May the Almighty grant his family and friends the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss of this great mind and personality.

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi

On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:51 AM, "'Funmi Tofowomo Okelola' via USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafric...@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com>> wrote:


http://tribuneonlineng.com/node/9663

Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko<http://tribuneonlineng.com/content/prof-ilemobade%E2%80%99s-killers-must-face-full-wrath-law-%E2%80%94mimiko>

Written by:
Hakeem Gbadamosi - Akure
THE Ondo state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Tuesday, assured family of former vice chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure ( FUTA), Professor Albert Ilemobade that the perpetrators of the gruesome murder would not go unpunished.
Mimiko, who stated this during his visit to the house of the deceased in Ijapo Estate in Akure, Ondo state capital, described the late don as a man who devoted his entire life to the service of humanity.
The governor, who was accompanied by member of the Ondo State Executive, Director of State Security Services, Christian Ojobor, representative of the state Commissioner of Police, among others, said the deceased lived a life worthy of celebration.
He frowned on the manner the former vice chancellor was killed, even as he commended the efforts of the security agents in the state, for getting to the root of the incident.
The governor, who later visited the store where the corpse of the deceased was kept by the culprits, enjoined people to always look into the profile and details of whoever they employed as their domestic workers.
Responding on behalf of the family, the deceased first son, Adesola Ilemobade appreciated the governor and his team for the visit and called for justice, describing the death of his father as a great loss
He described his father as a great man who left a great impact and heritage that would be followed by his children.



Funmi Tofowomo Okelola

-In the absence of greatness, mediocrity thrives.

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[Anunoby, Ogugua]

Really?

Why is this crime a "rude shock"? It should not be. It is not the first of its kind. It is one more of similar crimes before it. It will not be the last of its kind. Is the outrage expressed below because the victim here is an academic? What about the many others before this one? Governor Mimiko cannot be serious. He could not in good conscience claim that a murder such as this one is a surprise to him. He is the Chief Security Officer of his State. What has he done and continues to do to make life and property safe in his State? It is all very well for the killers to "face the full wrath of the law" as he has threatened but how does this ameliorate the loss of the victim to the world and especially his family? I would prefer that having expressed his sense of loss, he faithfully governs his State from now on and continues to do so. if he does, he will be well on his way to reducing and perhaps eliminating conditions in his State, that enable the "successful" perpetration of crimes such as this one.

oa
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Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 11:24 AM
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko

The abduction and the strangulation of the former VC of Federal University of Technology Akure came as a rude shock. The killers did not even show any sense of remorse which was expected of a normal human being. They are hardened criminals.
A thorough investigation should be made to unearth the perpetrators of this heinous and criminal act.
A great lesson to the rest of us. May the Almighty grant his family and friends the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss of this great mind and personality.

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi

On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:51 AM, "'Funmi Tofowomo Okelola' via USA Africa Dialogue Series" <usaafric...@googlegroups.com<mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com>> wrote:


http://tribuneonlineng.com/node/9663

Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko<http://tribuneonlineng.com/content/prof-ilemobade%E2%80%99s-killers-must-face-full-wrath-law-%E2%80%94mimiko>

Written by:
Hakeem Gbadamosi - Akure
THE Ondo state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Tuesday, assured family of former vice chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure ( FUTA), Professor Albert Ilemobade that the perpetrators of the gruesome murder would not go unpunished.
Mimiko, who stated this during his visit to the house of the deceased in Ijapo Estate in Akure, Ondo state capital, described the late don as a man who devoted his entire life to the service of humanity.
The governor, who was accompanied by member of the Ondo State Executive, Director of State Security Services, Christian Ojobor, representative of the state Commissioner of Police, among others, said the deceased lived a life worthy of celebration.
He frowned on the manner the former vice chancellor was killed, even as he commended the efforts of the security agents in the state, for getting to the root of the incident.
The governor, who later visited the store where the corpse of the deceased was kept by the culprits, enjoined people to always look into the profile and details of whoever they employed as their domestic workers.
Responding on behalf of the family, the deceased first son, Adesola Ilemobade appreciated the governor and his team for the visit and called for justice, describing the death of his father as a great loss
He described his father as a great man who left a great impact and heritage that would be followed by his children.



Funmi Tofowomo Okelola

-In the absence of greatness, mediocrity thrives.

http://www.cafeafricana.com<http://www.cafeafricana.com/>

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[Adeshina Afolayan]

Dear Prof., I salute you!  As usual, Baba Ijebu's wisdom derives from the burden of experience that comes with age. I cannot quarrel with that. I am in the process of gathering my own. But then, what happens to the very idea of the human society if social reciprocity is allowed to atrophy because we have had series of terrible experiences?  Let me illustrate sir. I have a terrible phobia for househelps. And my phobia is motivated by a sense of moral indignation. I don't know, but it seems to me that there's a thin line between child abuse, child trafficking and the trade in house helps in Nigeria and Benin Republic. Yet, my moral indignation wavers when one confronts the complexity of the entire practice. First, the children are sometimes willingly released by their parents when confronted with stark poverty in stilts. Second, some of these children find themselves in homes where there is a genuine concern for their welfare and future. Third, there are also homes where they are essentially instrumental means to several ends. And in these homes, they suffer indignities. Fourth, these children are also at the mercy of the child traffickers who have eyes only for the gains accruing from constant retrievals and relocations. Thus, even when these children manage to find themselves in good homes, they are no sooner settling down to enjoy the comfort of parental care and love even as house helps than they are brutally yanked back into the trade.  There is a fifth dimension: children or older house helps who are purely evil. There are several reasons for such description. These children may be coming from a terrible background such that no amount of goodness from the employer will assuage. Or: they may have become so hardened by their constant juggling from one house or zone or state to another that some kind of irreparable damage is done to their psyche. Remember the recent case of the mad house maid who nearly killed a child in her care? Those are the types that killed Prof. Ilemobade. But then, again, should that blind us to the possibility that we may somehow contribute to other people's upward mobility in life? For those of us here, we know it isn't out of place that the murder could have been committed by very close relatives of the professor. The emotional trauma would still be the same. Society runs on social action (in the strict sociological sense) and social reciprocity. How could the professor have known that these two would turn against him? Does anybody ever get such sociological early warning? Shouldn't kindness possess the capacity to deaden any diabolical intent? How much of kindness and goodness can really do that?  The point is that we cannot stop helping or responding to others. What happens to the sense of who we really are? This is the real question.  Would Professor Ilemobade take the entire step that led to employing those criminals all over again if given the chance? We will never know.

Adeshina Afolayan Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

From:"Assensoh, Akwasi B." <aass...@indiana.edu> Date:Thu, 2 Jul, 2015 at 1:31 am Subject:RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Prof Ilemobade’s killers must face full wrath of law —Mimiko

[Assensoh, Akwasi B.]

Dear Brother Adeshina:

 

Thank you very much for the beautiful prose, the writing my late father would have described as "Zikism" at best, but Baba Ijebu (my sagacious Landlord) would axiomatically have called "Awoism". Yet, they both answer or make the same clarion description or call: Excellent prose!

 

In fact, any time our late father wanted one of us (from his 48 children from his six wives) to write a letter for him to send to the QUUENDOM (UK), which he expected to have a beautiful prose (like what you propounded below), he insisted that the would-be letter writer MUST look for and to bring the then hard-cover green edition of  "Oxford English Dictionary", which he also said was full of "Zikism". Do you remember that dictionary, brother?

 

 Our father grew up in the Gold Coast when Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was editing a newspaper in the then colonial enclave, the vibrant newspaper that got him into trouble with the British colonial leaders, who charged him with sedition; after that ordeal, he left for Nigeria, but our fathers and mothers, with their limited formal education, still made us aware that our own schooling or studies must produce in us ZIKISM.

 

Your treatise below (with its ZIKISM-cum-AWOISM touch) did remind me of how many Catholic priests of yore also had sway with our parents in West Africa; several of us, therefore, became Catholic Church mass servers and, sometimes, I thank God Almighty (or Allah, the Merciful) that these priests never took "undue sexual advantage" of us. Instead, they made sure that we went to school, studied well and attended catechism classes on Fridays, and also that we did not eat meat on Fridays in honor of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

 

Last year in June, our family back in Ghana and also overseas lost our nephew (former University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere), who was part of the Catholic mass-serving crew in the early post-colonial years and, as I read his obituary at a Catholic High Mass  at Legon (near Accra), I smiled (instead of crying for the heavy and irreparable loss) because -- with our nephew being a faithful Catholic mass server --  I believed that he was already in Heaven holding the keys to let us inside the golden gates when we get there one day.

 

Well, brother, house servants in West Africa are not worse than what my 24-year old niece was to suffer in Kuwait: she and eleven other young Ghanaian women were enticed there to work as Nannies and female house servants for wealthy Arab families for agreed-upon salaries. Upon their arrival, they saw that their job descriptions had been altered to include "satisfying the male employer's fancy". My niece got the hint and, therefore, escaped; she is still in hiding and working illegally in Kuwaiti City to raise funds to bribe her way out of the place. She hears about the other eleven cohorts, who are being "used very well" by these rich male Arabs, who in fact allow them to sleep only in their garages! Well, they pay them $50 more each month for being "obedient"!! How did they get to Kuwait? A Ghanaian company charged a fee of $1,200.00 each, and ignorant mothers and fathers entered into such "suicidal" contracts for their young daughters to be sent into modern-day slavery. Do these suffering young women have the opportunity to murder their horrible male employers? No! How sad!!! 

 

I sincerely believe that Professor Ilemobade treated the two criminals and their families well. And his reward was to be murdered in cold blood! This is why I salute a cousin (a Lawyer) who looks at beggars with scorn! His motto is: "If I am sweating, go and sweat too!" Of course, I see your point, but those of us still living should be guided by the suffering of  those, who have paid the price with their lives as well as by common sense, but not what Baba Ijebu would call: "Book long!" 
A.B. Assensoh.    

 

 

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I am not sure that kindness is more often times not appreciated than appreciated by beneficiaries of it. There will always be some cases like Professor Ilemobade's. We must be mindful of not letting exception become the rule. Generalization can be unrepresentative of reality and true experience. Is that not one enduring criticism of profiling and stereotyping? What about doing good for goodness sake?

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Brother Adeshina:



Sorry oo, for your heavy loss back home, as we mourn with you! By the way, do you still stop by the roadside to give strangers (or "hapless people") rides, anywhere? When it comes to giving rides to needy people I call strangers, my old wise Yoruba landlord, Baba Ijebu, would say: "No way, unless over my dead body!" A great principle I now use when it comes to real strangers seeking such rides!!!



Example #1: I gave a ride to one of my former students years ago; it was threatening to rain, and I saw her under a small shed at a bus stop. Where she was going was way out of or far from my normal route when going home, but I tried to be a Good Samaritan, or "Mr. Good Man", as Baba Ijebu would say. Upon reaching her apartment, I tried to go closer to the building because it was then raining heavily. In the process, I even slightly dented the front of my car. The young woman opened the front door of the passenger side and, before storming out in anger, she said: "I don't know how you damn foreigners get money to buy such nice cars, and we don't have any cars..." It was an old Volvo, nothing fanciful, by the way! She forgot that I was not a student like herself, but her former professor!



Example #2: Another episode was after my evening class, when it was dark, at night, and I agreed to a request to give a ride to another student, this time a young guy. He instantly started: "Professor A.B., I am in a financial problem. I need money to pay my fee arrears in order to take my final exams. Can you help me?" I asked how he wanted me to help him. "Well, if you hit the pole on the roadside, we can make insurance claim," he told me, smiling, but pointing to a pole nearby. "Is that not insurance fraud?" I asked him. "Oh, never mind. I forgot that you are also dog-gone ordained Baptist minister. too bad," he said very disrespectfully before he slammed the door of my car to get out, as if I owed him anything, but with no thank you, dog! Of course, there are some other uglier examples!!!



These young people were not foreigners, mind you! When I narrated the episodes to my wife (herself an American woman), we made a pact never ever for us to give rides to ungrateful strangers, students or not.



Maybe, with poverty abound or prevalent back home (in Africa), one may understand such callous behaviors, when exhibited. But why here also, in the land of affluence? It simply seems to be human nature for some people to be beastly, cruel or callous whenever they get ready, hence the poor will be poorer and the rich richer. Amen?

Look at Professor ILEMOBADE's sad end. Well, for me to continue to live, I live by the axioms of Baba ijebu, who never had half of the education some of us have, no more by my own "book long", as he used to describe our doctorates and other professional degrees!!! Always in solidarity with Baba Ijebu!!!!



A.B. Assensoh, Chongqing, South of China.

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The question you now ask is: What's kindness' worth again? Would I still be motivated to be good to other when in actual fact they're intending to drain that milk of kindness from your heart?

I witnessed this sort of beastly behaviour in 2000 at Kaduna. That was the period when the ethnic and religious fervour was at its height. A man was killed by the rampaging Hausa youths, and he was fingered by his mai-guard who has a small shop in front of the house to augment his salary. He told them his "Oga" was inside.

When I heard the news of Prof. ILEMOBADE'S death and the manner it came about, it was as if my heart stopped.

Can I still stop my car by the roadside to pick hapless people caught in the rain? Am I still permitted by the principles of civility and courtesy to play the good Samaritan? Shouldn't I just temper my "bowel of compassion" with cold and suspicious realism?


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Ms. FT:

I am so sorry for your loss and for Nigeria's loss. May your uncle's soul rest in peace, his memory edified, your family comforted. May you bear the loss with grace and dignity.

Best regards
F.

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Prof. Obi:

Thank you very much. Prof. Ilemobade was my maternal uncle. At this point, I'm heartbroken and sad. From the timeline provided by the killers, I realized that my chat with my uncle on Father's Day was couple of hours before he was killed. I called to wish him Happy Father's Day, and to ascertain that he was enjoying reading the book, The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa by Lugard, that I sent to him. The family is heartbroken. I'm still tempted to call his phone number...

Funmi


On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:07 AM, Nnaemeka, Obioma G wrote:

I am in Abuja seething with anger as I watch on television the confession of the two scumbags that slaughtered this eminent Nigerian, Professor Albert Ilemobade, in his own home and left his body to decompose in a store while they made away with his car. Professor Ilemobade was their employer and what he got for his kindness was premature death. No punishment is adequate for these two hoodlums, Daniel and Olayemi. It is disheartening to witness the utter contempt we have here for human life. In addition to the Boko Haram mayhem, we are faced with weekly slaughter of Nigerians by trailers and petrol tankers that slam into markets, buses and motor parks. Last week, eighteen promising students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, were taken from us when a trailer, going the wrong way, ran into their bus. Few weeks earlier, a petrol tanker veered into a busy Onitsha market, caught fire and roasted scores of Nigerians to death. Sad. Very sad indeed.
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THE Ondo state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Tuesday, assured family of former vice chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure ( FUTA), Professor Albert Ilemobade that the perpetrators of the gruesome murder would not go unpunished.
Mimiko, who stated this during his visit to the house of the deceased in Ijapo Estate in Akure, Ondo state capital, described the late don as a man who devoted his entire life to the service of humanity.
The governor, who was accompanied by member of the Ondo State Executive, Director of State Security Services, Christian Ojobor, representative of the state Commissioner of Police, among others, said the deceased lived a life worthy of celebration.
He frowned on the manner the former vice chancellor was killed, even as he commended the efforts of the security agents in the state, for getting to the root of the incident.
The governor, who later visited the store where the corpse of the deceased was kept by the culprits, enjoined people to always look into the profile and details of whoever they employed as their domestic workers.
Responding on behalf of the family, the deceased first son, Adesola Ilemobade appreciated the governor and his team for the visit and called for justice, describing the death of his father as a great loss
He described his father as a great man who left a great impact and heritage that would be followed by his children.



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[Adeshina Afolayan]

"Doing good for goodness sake". Exactly my point. Even if one loses his or her life in the process.

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