ICHEOKU says when the Bible story of Cain and Abel was told, many people wondered how a brother could possibly kill his own brother. Although God summarily punished Cain for killing Abel by making him a fugitive and a vagabond, it did not serve as the deterrent which God had intended as brothers are still killing their brothers to this day. Cain becoming a mentally challenged hobo did not stop this hideous from happening. So, why does it happen and what on earth would drive a brother into committing such a hideous crime of killing his own brother?
Jealousy, hatred and uncontrolled anger are some of the leading factors that cause brothers to sometimes kill their own brothers. ICHEOKU recalls an incident many moons long ago when a brother in the heat of an impassioned argument with his brother over their father's proposed property settlement while he was still alive, took a screwdriver and stabbed his brother to death. There was also another incident when a brother from a polygamous family who had traveled home from his America base for his father's funeral was killed by his step brother before the funeral of their father even took place over some family dispute.
Such killings do happen with some degree of frequency that it could easily pass for a regularly occurring phenomena for which many people, including this writer, are no longer too aghast by such development. Therefore, this article is not necessarily to harpoon the fella in Atlanta who popped his own rapper brother, but to highlight the case as another example of such incidents. Instead of celebrating the success of his brother whose hit music "We Ready" became a somewhat anthem for Atlanta sports clubs, he became envious, jealous and hateful and plotted for his brother's demise; and when the opportunity presented itself, he shot and killed him.
Now his brother is dead and buried and rotten in his grave. He died in his hands through well placed gunshots on the temple. He has been arrested and charged with his murder, bail denied and and sitting in jail. Upon conviction, he will surely get a very long prison sentence handed to him by the jury in Atlanta. Then you ask yourself, what did he end up achieving by allowing his demon of envy to take hold of him, killing his brother in the process. It is sad that it happened and even sadder that a family have now lost two young men of their family, one to gun violence and the other to the justice prison system.
ICHEOKU says was the fate which befell both brothers avoidable? Yes, you bet they were. But the devil, even though he is a liar, still controls a lot of stuff and has again made an example out of this evil brother. Shame on the killer-brother whose name ICHEOKU will not glorify here by mentioning it. Although Archie Eversole sang 'We Ready', it sure looks like he was not himself ready to go when his demonic brother forcibly dispatched him to the world beyond through gun violence. May the soul of Archie Eversole now rest. Adieu Mr We Ready. #SayNoToGunViolence.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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