People, it is sad.
As the African grew from a predominantly F-1 student population in the seventies, when a crime was unheard of, to today's multi-general population with attendant psychoses, we lagged behind in acknowledging what other communities did. We must step up to address and prevent some of the crises with intervention services and value our African cultural resilience.
This young man lived in a million dollar home. Nobody suggested he needed psychiatric evaluation.. He is known to have fought with his mother - at least twice in September and December 2013. A verbal fight occurred in March 2013. In the three instances, police came.
Last week, cases were cited where husbands killed their wives. Among them, a man in Montgomery County buttered his wife while the children watched in horror on a New Year's eve. African women also commit crimes, from killing to brazen armed robberies, as one commandeered a bank heist.
Community, we can do better. From churches to secular organizations, leaders step up. Your sensitizing voice means something.
MsJoe.
kenna.
Sad, sad, sad.
Country hard here for a lot of us.
Loosing our children here is as easy as missing a bus when you are late.
10 weeks ago, I was called in to talk to a young Igbo boy said to be disrespectful to his dad to the point of engaging the poor man in a fist fight.
The boy argued that his father has never shown that he cares for him.
This boy is in a medical school.
He said he went to college without his father paying school fees for a day. He graduated and now oweing $85000 student's loan. Now in med school, he is going to finish in 3 years with another loan upto $145000.
He argued that his father cannot say he has no money because he builds houses in Lagos, Aba, Owerri and Portharcout.
That is a bit of some of the headaches here with raising our kids and some priorities that may turn around to harm us.
This is time for us to say some of these things out other wise such stories of killings won't minimize.
Now a question to Umuibe.
Should parents that can pay school fees for their kids push them out to get student loans?
Akusobi.On Jan 31, 2014 6:58 AM, "Ikenna Okonkwo" <biokonkwo1@gmail.com> wrote:--Ladies and Gentlemen,--
Some went to America enjoyed all the goodies in America, got kids in America trained them and they all become professionals and still behave like AFRICANS and they have even gotten GREAT, GREAT GRAND CHILDREN while some others went to the same America and in just FIRST GENERATION, either a husband killed the wife or the wife killed the husband or children killed their parents or vice versa just as in the case below.
WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE, WHY IS IT THAT SOME PEOPLE APPEAR TO BE MORE LUCKY AND BLESSED THAN OTHERS, COULD IT BE THAT SOME ARE WORKING MORE THAN OTHERS IN TERMS OF CHILD UPBRINGING OR IS THAT JUST A NATURAL LUCK TO HAVE A GOOD CHILD TO HAVE A CHILD THAT IS NOT INFLUENCED BY BAD PEERS, Which is which??????????? Your Views are very much welcome.
Thanks and kind regards,
Ikenna.
Nigerian man, Isaac Anya Ojiabo Jr , 20 years old, kills his Mother, Joy Ojiabo, 51, in Maryland, USA
Posted by admin on Thursday, January 30, 2014 ·January 30, 2014 By Aaron Cahall 26 Comments
A 20-year-old Forest Hill man was arrested by Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies early Thursday morning, hours after police said he stabbed his mother to death in their home.Isaac Anya Ojiabo Jr., 20, was taken into custody without incident at approximately 4:30 a.m., when detectives canvassing the Forest Hill area located him in his family's white Lexus SUV at the intersection of Crouse and Putnam Road, Sheriff's Office spokesman Edward Hopkins said.Ojiabo was being held at the Harford County Detention Center Thursday morning, awaiting an initial appearance before a District Court Commissioner on charges of first and second degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon.According to police, the body of Joy Ojiabo, 51, was found on the second floor of the family's home shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday by her husband, Anya Ojiabo, who was returning home from work. At that time, the younger Ojiabo was not present at the home, located in the 1600 block of Rushing Stream Court as part of the small, upscale development of Morning Brook Farm off Morse Road just outside Jarrettsville.The elder Ojiabo called 911, but Hopkins said investigators later determined that his wife was already deceased at the time she was found; it was not immediately clear when the crime had occurred.A man who identified himself as Anya Ojiabo answered the door of the family's home Thursday morning, but declined comment.Hopkins said deputies were called to the home three times in the past year for domestic disturbances involving Joy Ojiabo and her son, including visits in March, September, and December."Just because we're there a half-dozen times doesn't mean we're going to arrest anyone, nor it is indicative that this young man was going to do this," Hopkins said. "Family situations are tough, they can be tough to gauge."The family's troubles were known around their small cul-de-sac, according to the Ojiabo's next-door neighbor."I think there had been arguments between the parents and the children," said the neighbor, Lisa, who declined to give her last name. "Someone in the neighborhood told me there had been arguments."The neighbor said her family did not often interact with the Ojiabos, who she said were Nigerian and had lived in the neighborhood for approximately six years. She said she believed that Isaac Ojiabo attended Fallston High School and had worked at a local Subway restaurant, and that his mother was an attorney."It's devastating, totally devastating," she said.
According to state tax records, Isaac Ojiabo Sr. and Joy Ojiabo acquired their 6,100-square-foot home from builder Toll Brothers in November 2007, paying $1,032,847 for the house and one-acre lot.__._,_.___
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Ikenna.
Sad, sad, sad.
Country hard here for a lot of us.
Loosing our children here is as easy as missing a bus when you are late.
10 weeks ago, I was called in to talk to a young Igbo boy said to be disrespectful to his dad to the point of engaging the poor man in a fist fight.
The boy argued that his father has never shown that he cares for him.
This boy is in a medical school.
He said he went to college without his father paying school fees for a day. He graduated and now oweing $85000 student's loan. Now in med school, he is going to finish in 3 years with another loan upto $145000.
He argued that his father cannot say he has no money because he builds houses in Lagos, Aba, Owerri and Portharcout.
That is a bit of some of the headaches here with raising our kids and some priorities that may turn around to harm us.
This is time for us to say some of these things out other wise such stories of killings won't minimize.
Now a question to Umuibe.
Should parents that can pay school fees for their kids push them out to get student loans?
Akusobi.
Sad, sad, sad.
Country hard here for a lot of us.
Loosing our children here is as easy as missing a bus when you are late.
10 weeks ago, I was called in to talk to a young Igbo boy said to be disrespectful to his dad to the point of engaging the poor man in a fist fight.
The boy argued that his father has never shown that he cares for him.
This boy is in a medical school.
He said he went to college without his father paying school fees for a day. He graduated and now oweing $85000 student's loan. Now in med school, he is going to finish in 3 years with another loan upto $145000.
He argued that his father cannot say he has no money because he builds houses in Lagos, Aba, Owerri and Portharcout.
That is a bit of some of the headaches here with raising our kids and some priorities that may turn around to harm us.
This is time for us to say some of these things out other wise such stories of killings won't minimize.
Now a question to Umuibe.
Should parents that can pay school fees for their kids push them out to get student loans?
Akusobi.
On Jan 31, 2014 6:58 AM, "Ikenna Okonkwo" <biokonkwo1@gmail.com> wrote:
-- Ladies and Gentlemen,--
Some went to America enjoyed all the goodies in America, got kids in America trained them and they all become professionals and still behave like AFRICANS and they have even gotten GREAT, GREAT GRAND CHILDREN while some others went to the same America and in just FIRST GENERATION, either a husband killed the wife or the wife killed the husband or children killed their parents or vice versa just as in the case below.
WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE, WHY IS IT THAT SOME PEOPLE APPEAR TO BE MORE LUCKY AND BLESSED THAN OTHERS, COULD IT BE THAT SOME ARE WORKING MORE THAN OTHERS IN TERMS OF CHILD UPBRINGING OR IS THAT JUST A NATURAL LUCK TO HAVE A GOOD CHILD TO HAVE A CHILD THAT IS NOT INFLUENCED BY BAD PEERS, Which is which??????????? Your Views are very much welcome.
Thanks and kind regards,
Ikenna.
Nigerian man, Isaac Anya Ojiabo Jr , 20 years old, kills his Mother, Joy Ojiabo, 51, in Maryland, USA
Posted by admin on Thursday, January 30, 2014 ·January 30, 2014 By Aaron Cahall 26 Comments
A 20-year-old Forest Hill man was arrested by Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies early Thursday morning, hours after police said he stabbed his mother to death in their home.Isaac Anya Ojiabo Jr., 20, was taken into custody without incident at approximately 4:30 a.m., when detectives canvassing the Forest Hill area located him in his family's white Lexus SUV at the intersection of Crouse and Putnam Road, Sheriff's Office spokesman Edward Hopkins said.Ojiabo was being held at the Harford County Detention Center Thursday morning, awaiting an initial appearance before a District Court Commissioner on charges of first and second degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon.According to police, the body of Joy Ojiabo, 51, was found on the second floor of the family's home shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday by her husband, Anya Ojiabo, who was returning home from work. At that time, the younger Ojiabo was not present at the home, located in the 1600 block of Rushing Stream Court as part of the small, upscale development of Morning Brook Farm off Morse Road just outside Jarrettsville.The elder Ojiabo called 911, but Hopkins said investigators later determined that his wife was already deceased at the time she was found; it was not immediately clear when the crime had occurred.A man who identified himself as Anya Ojiabo answered the door of the family's home Thursday morning, but declined comment.Hopkins said deputies were called to the home three times in the past year for domestic disturbances involving Joy Ojiabo and her son, including visits in March, September, and December."Just because we're there a half-dozen times doesn't mean we're going to arrest anyone, nor it is indicative that this young man was going to do this," Hopkins said. "Family situations are tough, they can be tough to gauge."The family's troubles were known around their small cul-de-sac, according to the Ojiabo's next-door neighbor."I think there had been arguments between the parents and the children," said the neighbor, Lisa, who declined to give her last name. "Someone in the neighborhood told me there had been arguments."The neighbor said her family did not often interact with the Ojiabos, who she said were Nigerian and had lived in the neighborhood for approximately six years. She said she believed that Isaac Ojiabo attended Fallston High School and had worked at a local Subway restaurant, and that his mother was an attorney."It's devastating, totally devastating," she said.
According to state tax records, Isaac Ojiabo Sr. and Joy Ojiabo acquired their 6,100-square-foot home from builder Toll Brothers in November 2007, paying $1,032,847 for the house and one-acre lot.__._,_.___
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