For Mrs. Virginia Okonkwo, life could not have dealt a bigger blow. She lost her husband, son, daughter and domestic help to the activities of the Boko Haram sect in Bauchi State, where she had been living with her husband for over 45 years.
DAVID-CHYDDY ELEKE who visited the family in Mgboke village, Umunachi in Anambra State, writes that the family has lost confidence in the government of Governor Isa Yuguda.
For Mrs. Virginia Okonkwo, the world is about to come t o an end. Though she still maintains her bulky frame, evidence of the good life she had lived before, she keeps saying she has nothing more to live for, except her children, whose future looks bleak due to the loss of the head of the house to help train them.
Reading her bible quietly in her husband’s old house,we met with Mrs Okonkwo and she narrated that in September, she returned to the village after her eldest son was murdered by members of the Boko Haram sect. He left behind a pregnant wife.
She told us that her decision to return home was because they no longer felt there was a future for them in Bauchi. She had to come back and plan on how to make a better life and survive because Bauchi, where they had called home for so many years, was no longer safe, as a result of the activities of the Boko Haram sect.
“My sister who earlier left Bauchi had told me that she was now in Uyo, and that the place is good, so I and my husband planned that I will move to Uyo to continue mybusiness as a restaurant operator. I came to the village with the hope that after resting for two days, I will travel to Uyo to see what the place looked like.
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