Emekeme Joseph, also known as Semikolo, the Chairman of Covenant Suites, a hotel chain in Sapele Delta State, and a Deacon of Winner’s Chapel, has been killed by his children.
According to a reliable source, Joseph fell gravely ill after being assaulted by his sons. The sons, who graduated from Covenant University, caught their father with his side chick and demanded a million naira bribe.
It was said that when their father refused to pay, they threatened to inform their mother, who was on holiday in the United States. The sons carried out their threat, and their mother was incensed.
The following day, Joseph visited his wife’s Coca-Cola depot, where his sons hounded him out of the place. He went home, seized the keys to his sons’ cars, and called the police. The sons reacted by physically assaulting their father, breaking the head of one of the police officers who responded to the call.
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The boys were arrested and the father was rushed to the hospital. The condition of the father was deteriorating quickly and he was referred to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital where he was fighting for his life.
The wife quickly flew back to the country and facilitated the release of the sons from the police custody and strangely discharged the husband against the doctor’s advice from UBTH where he was in a coma but he subsequently died at home.
