Wonders and the mystery of Death will never end. Yesterday the 20^th of December 2012 at the upper sokponba road area of Benin City, tragedy struck when a fight ensued over  #20.00 and a young/fresh University graduate lost his life. The story was that the young graduate took Okada  (a motor bike used as a means of transport in Nigeria) to his house. The Hausa bike rider had charged the graduate passenger #100.00 but on getting to the graduate’s destination/family house he paid the bike rider #80.00 instead of the agreed #100.00. The bike rider refused the offer and the graduate threw the money on the ground and worked away. The bike rider insisted on getting his complete money and that the money should be handed to him and not thrown on the flour. A woman in the neighbourhood who watched for a while came out and added the balance #20.00. But the bike rider refused and said the graduate should pick the money from the ground and give it to him personally. After a long argument and persuasion from his neighbours the graduate then agreed to pick the money up. However,  as he bent down to do so the Hausa boy pick up a piece of firewood that the boys mother sells and struck the graduate on the head. The force was much that the boys eyes popped out of the skull and he died on the way to the hospital. As the Hausa boy was about to escape the neighbourhood boys apprehended him and handed him over to the police.

Some people are of the view that if such a thing had happened in the North that they would have lynched the non native instantly. The Benins they say  are very accommodative. Others are also saying that the late graduate and other youths in that area are always of the habit of entering okada and not paying  the riders that the reason the people did not lynch the Hausa boy was that they did not like the injustice.

The graduate has carelessly wasted his life, caused pain for his parents and made the Christmas a miserable holiday for all concern. I hear the graduate is from the Royal Family of Ugo in Iyeke-Orhionmion. They say his father was the one that held the enogieship unbehalf of the current Enogie of Ugo who was then too young to ascend the throne.