STELLA OBASANJO'S KILLER-DOCTOR, IMPRISONED!

The doctor that "butchered" late Stella Obasanjo, the official wife of former polygamous Nigeria despotic leader, Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo, has been sentenced to one year in prison for homicidal negligence by a Malaga court in southern Spain. The doctor, Spanish plastic surgeon Antonio Mena pictured here right, was also disqualified from practising medicine for three years, and ordered to pay N26 million Naira (about $176,000 or £108,000) in compensation to Mrs Obasanjo's son/children? Blood money, may be?

It will be leaves a court in recalled that Stella, 59 in her vainglorious pursuit of youth had in October 2005, sneaked into a Marbella, Spain clinic for liposuction cosmetic surgery; and Icheoku wonders what an African 59 year old grandmother is doing under the knife trying to cheat nature? It is all vanity the preacher says in Ecclesiastes 1:2 and she paid the supreme sacrifice for that her unwise decision?

According to the story late Stella Obasanjo was no longer comfortable with her protruding abdomen or stomach which was often an object of teasing by the Aremu himself, that she vowed to do something about it to keep her fabled 'he-goat' of a husband continuously attracted to her? On a disguised shopping trip to Europe, she detoured into the Marbella clinic and underwent an abdominal liposuction. But as fate would have it, a tube used for removing her fatty tissues was negligently placed too far into her abdominal cavity, that it punctured her colon and lacerated her liver too. This condition was not known to the surgeon and complications resulted, following which she gave up the ghost the next day?

While wishing Stella Obasanjo eternal rest, Icheoku condemns and discourages such vain-glory by women the world over and particularly African women who are emulating their European and North American counterparts, in this mad pursuit for youth and in futile effort to beat aging and shame mother-nature!

Icheoku says, women of this world should learn to age gracefully and always remember the good life they lived as youths, through pictures and memories; and desist from taking such risky procedure to fake youth. If your husband or man no longer like your new state, please take solace in your children and see in them what you traded off for your now somewhat saggy appearance and feel comforted! If your husband doesn't like it, to hell; after-all there is time for everything under the sun and even morning roses wither away with the sunset! Adieu Stella Obasanjo; admitted we do not like your husband for ruining Nigeria, and punishing Nigerians with his Greek-gift of President Umaru Yar'Adua?