Big Brother Naija: Why The Reality Show Must Stop Airing Immediately – Group

A group, Nigerian Project for Human Development, NPHD, has joined others voices calling for the termination of popular Reality Show, Big Brother Naija.

The group has petitioned the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, the Presidency and the Nigerian public that the airing Big brother Naija be stopped.

Recall that a Lagos lawmaker, Segun Olulade yesterday advised the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on the negative implications of Big Brother Naija on the nation’s culture and youths.

But in a statement by its coordinator, Dr. Mojisola Araba, NPHD claimed that the petition to cancel Big Brother Naija had gathered 10,000 signatures.

According to the group, the “Petition has collected 10,000 signatures from concerned Nigerians to cancel the Reality TV Show ‘Big Brother Naija.’”

It added, “The on-going TV Reality show, Big Brother Nigeria is indeed a corruption of TV Reality shows.

“The Nigerian public is complaining about the moral perversity in the House of the Big Brother Nigeria.

“In one episode last two weeks or so, the inmates were shown openly kissing and caressing one another. This is a celebration of obscenity, eroticism and idleness.

“More importantly, it is a big mockery of Nigerian culture and tradition. Since the inmates are Nigerians, they should have been projecting the Nigerian cultural heritage. But instead of doing that, they are bastardizing it.

“When Endernol, the Dutch, first conceived the idea of BBA in 1997, open kissing and caressing by the inmates and celebration of obscenity were never considered by him.

“Even the TV Reality shows in other countries do not contain the obscenity we are watching in the on-going Big Brother Nigeria. There is a great danger in importing the destructive foreign lifestyle to Nigeria.

“Explicit sexual overtures which appeal to the prurient interest in sex, damages a country’s moral ecology in an analogous way in which oil pollutant damages a country’s ecology.

“The biggest tragedy of the on-going Big Brother Nigeria is that our children also glued to the TV screen watching it. Children are our future.

“Therefore we should protect them from lewd exposure, which might prevent their growth into free, independent and well-developed citizens.

“The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) must live up to its bidding as a body charged with controlling, monitoring, regulating the electronic media and monitoring of satellite transmission in Nigeria. Our TV stations cannot become dumping grounds for all sorts of immoral programs.

“NBC must stop the airing of Big Brother Nigeria now.”

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I’M God, Jesus Is Not Coming Back – Pastor Tells Church

A 27-year-old controversial church founder in Zimbabwe, Given Dube, has caused outrage after he claimed that he is God and that Jesus is not coming back.

Dube, who claimed to be God, wants Africans not to believe that Jesus is coming again.

According to a newspaper, Zimbabwe News, Dube who is the founder of Umuzi ka Nkulunkulu (House of god) Church in Pumula South, had told his members to address him as God as the Holy Spirit had descended on him and declared him God.

The pastor is said to have been telling his members that he is the God who made the heaven and earth and has power over all creation.

He added that the belief that Jesus is coming back was just a fallacy used by religious scholars to hold people in perpetual fear.

In an interview with the newspaper, Dube who has a Holy Book which his members use for their daily guide emphasized his claims by saying he was God’s host on earth.

He said, “I am being used by a spirit which I cannot even see. I only saw it in a vision once when it first appeared to me in 2008 when I was in Chipinge for National Youth Service training.

“Since then, God’s spirit speaks to me and I hear his voice and that spirit uses me. For people to believe me, I write everything down and that is the holy book referred to as Uluju Lwezulu.

“I am God and do not need anyone to explain my words. I have written this book and it guides people in their daily lives.

“When Jesus came to earth, not all people listened to him and he was even killed. Now I have come, some have listened and I will guide them.

“They believe the lies they are being told that Jesus is coming back again. I can tell you that he is not coming back again as the religious leaders use that to instill fear in people.

“I am God and I plan. I just command and it happens. You also have to understand that I don’t expect everyone to see me as their God, but they first have to accept the word and understand, so only church members recognize me as their God.

“I command, I can stop diseases and wars in the world or even command them to happen. This is a different belief from Christians who are still waiting for the coming of Jesus; I am already here.”

Some pastors and Christian leaders in that country have petitioned the government to stop Dube from spreading falsehood, but nothing has been done yet.

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Serious Drama As General Manager Flogs 4 Workers With A Cane In Bayelsa State (Photo)

A baffling incident has happened in Bayelsa state as a Radio General manager used a cane to flog some of his staff in public.

The General Manager, John Idumange flogged the staffers with cane

The industrial dispute at Radio Bayelsa, christened Glory FM took a twist on Thursday when the General Manager flogged four staffers on duty.

The Radio Bayelsa Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ) and Radio Television and Theatre Arts Workers Unions (RATTAWU) consequently shut the radio station. Some reports had said the staffers were whipped by suspected thugs.

Mr Tonye Yemoleigha, NUJ Chairman in Radio Bayelsa told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Yenagoa that he and three female staff were caned by the General Manager of the Station, Mr John Idumange.

“Four of us, myself and three female staff were flogged by Idumange himself. The report that it was thugs is inaccurate. It was the General Manager himself. The blisters on the skin are more severe for the ladies.

“We have reported the matter to the Ekeki Police Division and sought medical attention at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa. Workers have been constantly intimidated and threatened for no just cause.

Mr Idumange declined to comment on the allegation that he caned the four members of staff.

Yemoleigha, NUJ Chairman said: “Mr John Angese, Bayelsa Council Chairman of NUJ who is a staff of Radio Bayelsa has also been threatened with a sack, we are all being victimised for insisting that the General Manager complies with Public Service rules.

“We have been under siege since the General Manager was appointed on December 6, 2016. We are not opposed to repositioning the station which is in our interest but we want the procedure to follow due process,” Yemoleigha said.

NAN reports that after the station went off air, the management mobilised armed security men and few employees who rebuffed the strike to reopen the station.

NAN also reports that the station continued to play music all through as the station’s scheduled programmes and news bulletin could not be aired.

Yemoleigha said that workers of the station are not opposed to staff redeployment.

“But the unions should also be part of the process to ensure that the best hands are not sacrificed on the altar of nepotism, sentiment or witchhunt.

“We are also aware of the alleged over N5 million naira payroll fraud which Idumange claimed to have uncovered and has referred to the Police for investigation.

“Ordinarily, in line with established procedures, an Investigative Panel should have been instituted to look into the matter and come up with a report with which management would act as appropriate.

“All these are expressly spelt out in the Public Service Rules; however, we are requesting for a copy of the police report after their investigation.

“We have asked management to properly discipline everyone involved in an established case of running the salary of a staff who resigned with effect from August 2016,” Yemoleigha said

Idumange dismissed the allegations levelled against him. He said that the unions were being used to sabotage his efforts at re-positioning the station which was in a deplorable state before his appointment.

He refused to speak on the allegations that he flogged staffers of the station.

He told NAN that there was no going back on his reform efforts as they have received the blessings of the supervising Bayelsa Ministry of Information.

“This small radio station has 346 workers; employment and job placement have never followed due process, we are currently reorganising the place and they are resisting our efforts.

“Those ghost workers must be fished out and the payroll cleaned up.

“The wage bill of the station is N35 million monthly and it is not sustainable. My predecessor incurred a debt of N40 million.

“The unions are being instigated by the Heads of Department affected in the illegal recruitment, and those who came into that place through the back door’’, he said.

-NAN

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We Give MTN, DSTV And Others 2 Days To Leave Nigeria Or Face Trouble – Nigerian Students Issue Ultimatum Over Xenophobic Attacks

The National Association of Nigerian Students has given all South African companies in Nigeria 48 hours to relocate over the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.

The students gave the ultimatum at a demonstration at some South African companies in Abuja on Thursday.

During the protest the students carried placards and a banner, which read, “NANS Against Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians.’’

The President of NANS, Mr. Kadiri Aruna, said in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria at the office of DSTV, a South African company, in Wuse 2, Abuja, that Nigerian students had resolved to condemn the attacks.

“We are saying that enough is enough as South Africans have openly attacked and bullied Nigerians.’’

Aruna said that the protest would also serve as a warning to other countries trying to underrate Nigerians.

He said that after 48 hours, if nothing was done, messages would be sent to students in all university campuses to bring down MTN masts all over the country.

Aruna said that DSTV and Shoprite would also be affected as the union had put adequate strategies in place to make the action effective.

“All the South African business empires in Nigeria and their collaborators in Nigeria will be affected,” he said.

“I don’t want to say we will be barbaric but we will not be lawful in our actions, we will do it and face the consequences, enough of this rubbish.”

Aruna stressed that the poor treatment being meted out to Nigerians was particularly insulting given the role Nigeria played in ending the apartheid regime in South Africa.

“Nigeria contributed 80 per cent of the freedom the South Africans are enjoying today because we saved them from the jaws of apartheid.

“Who is South Africa to humiliate Nigeria? So they forget things so soon, let them go back to history and records to see how much financial assistance and what the country did to save them,’’ he said.

The union president said that the situation was inhuman and for this reason all reasonable Nigerians must react.

“In science they say you use malaria to cure malaria, now you use madness to cure their madness, and that is why we are advising them to leave Nigerian soil before 48 hours.’’

The NANS president called on the Federal Government not to wait until the dying minutes before evacuating Nigerians from South Africa.

“Government should take extra-diplomatic measures in dealing with the latest deadly assaults because if nothing drastic is done it will become a regular occurrence,” he said.

He said the current attacks occurred because the last time xenophobic attacks happened nothing was done, no action was taken and no arrest was made.

-NAN

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No Nigerian Died In South African Xenophobic Attacks – Nigerian Govt

The Federal Government has said no Nigerian died during the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

This was revealed after a meeting between the Minister of State Foreign Affairs, Khadija Abba-Ibrahim, in Abuja and the High Commissioner of South Africa to Nigeria, Lulu Aaron-Mnguni, on the issue.

Nigerian buildings, properties and places of worship worth millions of dollars were destroyed by South Africans on February 5 and 18. After which the Ministry on Monday, February 20, summoned the South Africa High Commissioner over the matter.

The minister said no Nigerian lost their lives in the attacks contrary to reports in some media.
According to her, the reports that mentioned the killing of Nigerians in the xenophobic attacks are unsubstantiated.

“The ministry has not received the report of any death of Nigerian in the latest incidents of attacks against foreigners.

“The Nigerian High Commission in Pretoria is in constant touch with the Nigerian Union in South Africa, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) of South Africa, as well as the South African police.

“All these agencies have confirmed that no Nigerian life was lost in the recent incident,” she said.

The minister said the government was in touch with South African authorities to ensure the safety of Nigerians there. She therefore appealed to the media not to fuel the crisis further with unconfirmed reports.

Responding, the South Africa High Commissioner to Nigeria said his government was on top of the situation.

Mr. Aaron-Mnguni said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South African will hold a briefing with the diplomatic community in his country on Friday to fashion out more ways to solve the problem.

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Recession Everywhere!! Even The Masquerades Are Hungry, See What This Masquerade Was Spotted Doing (Photos)

Inside Nigeria Hot Sun, Masqueraders spotted buying cold ice-cream to cool temper… Another photo below;

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I Urinate On Myself Each Time A Guy Romances Me – 20-Year-Old Girl Narrates Weird S*xual Experience

A very young Nigerian lady has shared the story of her weird sexual experience with her lovers on the Instagram page of flamboyant relationship consultant, Joro Olumofin.

Popular Lagos-based Psychologist and Relationship therapist, Joro Olumofin, has taken to his Instagram page to share the story of a 20-year-old who said she urinates on herself during foreplay, saying that her friends are doing all sorts of blowjobs and styles, adding that why can’t she progress in life from kissing stage.

Below is the e-mail she sent to the relationship blogger;

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Popular Prophet Allegedly Performs ‘P*nis Enlargement’ Miracle On A Man In Church (Photo)

A famous African man of God has done the unbelievable as he allegedly performed p*nis enlargement miracle at his church to the shock of many.

Founder of Shammah Miracle Embassy International, Prophet Anointed Benard

The founder of Shammah Miracle Embassy International in Lusaka, Zambia, Prophet Anointed Benard popularly called Commander 1 has allegedly performed a ‘penis enlargement’ miracle on a 35-year-old man who had a micro-penis.

The Prophet shared the baffling news on his Facebook page. He revealed that the miracle took place inside his office in the church.

“The man that visited my office today got shocked. Hear this! Anything you want God to do for you that’s what he will do for you. This man walked into my office and said commander 1 am 35 years old, my penis is like of a child , my first wife left me I don’t want my second wife to go. I want your God to enlarge my PENIS. I have tried everything but to no avail, immediately i prayed for him and instantly his penis grew 2 times bigger.” Prophet Anointed Benard posted on Facebook.

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Armed Robber Shot Dead At Zenith Bank, Owerri By Police Today (See Photos)

According to Sunny who shared the story, armed robbers today robbed Zenith bank opposite Dan Anyiam stadium,Owerri in broad daylight.

Men of Nigerian Police Force shot one of them dead. See more  graphics photos below:

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Big Brother Naija: Why Federal Government Should Stop The TV Show – Lawmaker

Member representing Epe Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Olusegun Olulade has called on the federal government to reconsider the implications of allowing the Big Brother Naija Show on the Nigerian culture and youths.

Olulade, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Health Services, lamented that the contents of the Reality Show were completely foreign to the indigenous culture, which the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was trying to promote.

According to him, the government should swing into action through the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC), and ensure it stopped the airing of such programme before it further caused serious damage to the culture.

His words: “The content of Big Brother Naijashow is alien to our culture. This show is contrary to the rich cultural values we are trying to promote and bring to the front burner. It is sad that our young children including adults are made to watch such content.

“This kind of programme promotes obscenity and immorality. We must not encourage such if our hallowed cultural heritage would be preserved. We cannot prevent our inquisitive young ones from watching the obscene displays that permeate the show.

“I think the NBC should, without delay, stop this programme if this government means business in the promotion of our cultural values. The show does not add any value to our education, social and economic life,” the lawmaker said.

Olulade, also advised the Federal Government to ensure adequate censor of information being aired and sent to the public, noting that such programme as Big Brother Naija was capable of causing distractions to the Nigerian youths and affecting many families.

“I will want to urge all parents and guardians to be on their guards and guide their children and wards against the implication of allowing them to keep watching the Show. Our children should not be allowed to be corrupt because this may affect their dreamed future,” he added.

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God Is Great! Sheep Born With Six Legs In Niger State (Photos)

According to Facebook user, Baba Umar, a sheep with six legs was born today at Kpege, Niger State.

People all around the area gathered to watch the mystery creature with their phones in a very surprising mood. the cause of such is not clear as some says its the sign of end time and other people are saying its naturally possible.

See another photo below:

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Money Speaking!! E-Money Celebrates Birthday With Money-Inspired Cake (See Photos)

CEO of 5 Star Music, E-Money got himself a money-inspired birthday cake, to reflect his name. No time #MoneyIsGood

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Here Are 7 Most Beautiful Hackers In The World

They’re extremely cute but these set of ladies can clear an entire bank with just a set of computers. Let me introduce the most beautiful hackers in the world – With a combination of beauty, brains and sex appeal. You certainly won’t want to mess with them.

Adeanna Cooke

She is a hacker and former playmate. An old friend of hers decided to pose on the internet as her and started taking money for doing so.

This did not go down well with her. If there was anyone who was going to be making money off her body, it was going to be her.

She came across an unauthorized website with her pictures, then she took matters into her own hands and hacked into the account herself to take them down the photos.

After the successful attempts, Cooke also used her hacking skills to help others in similar situations She was also known as the “Hacker Fairy” to other women being taken advantage of on the Internet.

Ying Cracker

Ying teaches people the basics of hacking; things like changing your IP address or wiping Office passwords

Who doesn’t want to learn how to hack from a beautiful chic ?

She was first noticed in a Chinese Hackers’ forum post that got her noticed and created a huge fan base for her.

Her work is quite impressive as well. She’s an expert in writing hacking software and charges a lot of money for simple courses on hacking tools.

She usually makes about $2000 per month in the hacking business and for that, she certainly deserves your respect.

Kristina Svenchiskaya

Kristina was a student at The New York University and is a money mule hacker.

She attempted to defraud several British and U.S. banks of millions of dollars using a Trojan horse malware. With collective team efforts, she earned a sum of more than $3 million by opening fake bank accounts and using fake passports.

Kristina was later arrested in 2011 but released after signing a bond and paying $25,000 as bail.

If she had been convicted, she could have been imprisoned for more than 40 years.

Raven Adler

Ravel Alder is certainly one of the most gifted and intelligent hackers who’s using her education for good use. She was the first female to give a presentation at DefCon, one of the world’s most prestigious gatherings of hackers.

She currently helps corporations protect their data and other sensitive information. She is also a consultant, lecturer, and author who deals in hacking and computer security.

Kim Vanvaeck

Kim also was known as Gigabyte, the Belgium national is well known for developing many high caliber viruses that target hardware subsequently destroy sensitive information.

She wrote her first virus when she was 14. She wrote the viruses not to gain money but to cement her position in a group of hackers that are dominated by men. She wanted to prove to the world that women too can write viruses and can be dangerous hackers, unlike what the world knows it to be. Her virus, Sharp, is credited with being the first virus ever written in C Sharp.

Vanvaeck was later arrested when she was aged 17 but was out on bail in 24 hours due to her minor status.

Xiao Tian

Tian formed the female hacking group called “China Girl Security Team,” as she felt that there was no other outlet for teenage girls like her in the male-dominated world of hacking.

Her group has ties with some of the most notorious hacking organizations in the world and has become one of the largest Chinese-based hacking groups.

As with most well-known and outspoken groups of this nature, Tian and the rest of China Girl Security Team continue to receive attention from national and international police organizations due to their activities.

Anna Chapman

Anna was a Russian hacker who lived in New York City before she was arrested, along with nine others in 2010. She was accused of working for the Illegals Program spy ring under the Russian Federation’s external intelligence agency.

Chapman pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General, and was deported to Russia, as part of a prisoner swap. She also lost her U.S. citizenship

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5 Dead, 13 Hospitalised After Pastor Gave Church Members ‘Annointed’ Rat Poison To Drink (Photos)

                                                                                          Light Monyeki

Remember Pastor, Light Monyeki from Soshanguve, South Africa, who made his church members drink ‘anointed’ rat poison? Well five members of the church who drank the poison are reportedly dead.

The pastor tried to prove to his members that they were sub-human and couldn’t die from drinking the lethal dose of rat poison that he had ‘anointed’, well, he was proven wrong with the death of 5 of his members.

After his members drank the poisonous liquid, all of them started to complain of stomach pains by the evening of the same day.

13 of them were admitted in hospitals for treatment while 5 of them died.

Monyeki has denied responsibility of the death of the 5 members.

Police have now been involved in the case and they are investigating the matter.

So far, nobody has been arrested.

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‘He Fucked You Alot!!!!’ – Nigerians Blasts Tonto Dikeh Husband’s PA After Posting Photos Of Car She Bought To Celebrate Her Birthday

Nigerians are adamantly blasting Rosy Meurer after sharing photos of the car she bought to celebrate her birthday.They are saying that Tonto Dikeh’s estranged husband bought the car for her..that she can’t buy such car as a PA..Recall that she was fingered as the brain behind Tonto’s marriage crash..see the car and some comments below;

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Very Sad! Shortly After Returning To Nigeria, 24-Year-Old Ukraine-Trained Medical Doctor Dies (Photos)

Tears flowed freely on Monday, February 6, 2017 in Warri, Delta state at the burial of a fresh 24 year old Nigerian medical doctor, Dr. Nancy Oghenetega Appih.

Nancy graduated on June 24, 2016 from Ivana-Frankivsk National Medical University in Ukraine. Dr. Nancy returned to the country immediately after her graduation and completing all necessary requirements for her certificate.

But she died on January 31, 2017, after a brief illness, and was buried on Monday 6th February.

More photos below:

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Barack Obama Breaks Silence On Donald Trump And Encourages Protests Against Muslim Ban

Barack Obama has broken his silence for the first time since Donald Trump’s inauguration – offering his encouragement to people protesting against Donald Trump.

President Obama released a statement tonight, welcoming the protests, which he says are “exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake.”

And in an even more pointed dig at his successor, he explained the difference between his pause on granting visas to Iraqi citizens in 2011 and Donald Trump’s Muslim ban.

The statement says he “fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion.”

The statement comes as protests against Donald Trump’s Muslim ban have stretched across the pond.
Large demonstrations have been reported across the UK – in cities as far afield as London, Brighton, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.

Here’s Barack Obama’s statement in full:

President Obama is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country. In his final official speech as President, he spoke about the important role of citizen and how all Americans have a responsibility to be guardians of our democracy – not just during an election, but every day.

Citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake.

With regard to comparisons to President Obama’s foreign policy decisions, as we’ve heard before, the President fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion.

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See The 1st Black Death Row Prisoner Executed Under Donald Trump’s Presidency (Photos)

Terry Edwards murdered two Subway workers back in 2003. 14 years later, he has become the first death row prisoner to be executed under Donald Trump’s U.S. presidency.

Terry Edwards was a former employee of the sandwich food chain, who had been fired several weeks before the crime. He was caught stealing from the register.

He was executed by lethal injection in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday at 10.17 pm. His last words before dying were:

 that he was “at peace with God”.

The victims’ families were present, but he did not turn to look at them. They released a statement stating

“tonight is a time for us to remember Mickey and Tommy… Though this chapter of our journey is now over, we will always feel the loss of them in our lives.”

Edward’s murdered co-workers were Mickell Goodwin, a 26-year-old mother of two, and Tommy Walker, the 34-year-old store manager. He shot them both in the head.

The defense lawyers unsuccessfully tried to delay his execution. The time for his death was extended three hours, but in the end the proceeding began.

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Wickedness! South African Woman & Boyfriend Kill Her Husband, Chops His Body To Pieces (Photos)

A 61-year-old South African man was killed,  chopped to pieces and buried in a shallow grave — allegedly by his wife, as well as her boyfriend and a friend.

These were the chilling claims made by the friend, who told police how he was duped into helping to bury Shelly Lekalakala by his wife and her boyfriend.

Shelly was reported missing by his 37-year-old wife on January 2017. By then he had already been dead for more than two weeks.

According to Temba police, a terrified man arrived at the police station on Wednesday to confess to being party to burying a body in the Bosplaas bushes.

Police spokesperson Kay Makhubela said the man told of how he was tricked into helping burying the body in what he initially thought was ritual practice.

He said he later learnt it was a horrible murder.

The man told police how he received a phone call on New Year’s Eve from a friend asking him to help carry a heavy metal bath into the bush nearby.

“It’s believed the guy who called the ‘confessor’ for help is the boyfriend of the deceased man’s wife,” said Makhubela.

When the man arrived at Shelly’s house in Ramotse, he found his friend and the victim’s wife wrapping objects and throwing them inside a metal sink.

When he questioned them what they were doing he was told not to worry and that it was a ritual for good luck since the woman was a traditional doctor in training.

The man who confessed unsuspectingly proceeded to help the duo and helped carry the metal sink to the bush, which is about 2km from the house.

“(He) told police the initial idea was to throw the metal sink inside a river. But they did not go ahead with that plan; the trio attempted to dig a hole instead,” said Makhubela.

“The trio didn’t finish digging the hole that night. They came back the next night,” he said.

It was on the second night that the confessor was highly suspicious and discovered that the wrapped-up objects were actually Shely’s body parts.

When he questioned the pair again he was told that he too would be killed and buried. Two weeks went by before the wife reported him missing.

Shelly’s, Johanna Hlongwane, said she became suspicious after not seeing the him for two weeks.

“I only saw the wife and her boyfriend playing music and having parties, but I had not a single sight of him,” she said.

She called his family who came to question the wife. But the family were not successful in getting answers.

“What is worse is that all three of them lived in the house and the slain man had been convinced that his wife’s boyfriend was just a tenant. They were playing him for a fool right under his nose,” said Hlongwane.

Two days before she last saw him he was also badly beaten by his wife and her boyfriend, Hlongwane said.

“One of my children stopped the beating,” she said.

Close friend Frank Motaung said the man worked at the Department of Public Works and was scheduled to go on pension. He had never had any children.

As Shelly’s body was pulled out of the crude grave in a bush in Bosplaas, Hammanskraal, his family members and neighbours could barely contain their tears as forensic officials dug up the body.

Community members admitted that they had always had a hunch that the wife was somehow involved, and so they mobilised and tried questioning her, but she called the police and was escorted away.

The wife and her boyfriend have not been seen since January 19.

On Wednesday the man who went to police directed officers to the grave and on Thursday the police exhumed the remains. The man has been detained at Temba police station while the police search for the other suspects.

At the graveside the mood was sombre, as Shelly’s mother, two brothers, cousins and neighbours watched and waited for the remains to be brought out of the makeshift grave.

Shelly’s mother Elizabeth Lekalakala, said she felt lifeless and distraught.

“This is my fifth child to die. My boy was humble and kept to himself. Why would they do this to him?” she asked, almost close to tears.

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