Samson (pictured above) was stabbed
and burnt to death in Moscow, Russia
by yet to be identified Russian
gangstars, according to a report by
Sunday Sun . Find the full report below
Sunday Sun gathered that she was
murdered by yet-to-be-identified
Russian gangsters. According to a
family source, the perpetrators
went further to lock her body in a
room and set it ablaze. Though,
the police took her to the
hospital, it was rather futile.
The source revealed that Forester
was sponsored abroad by one
Mercy who is suspected to be
trafficking Nigerian girls on the
promise that she would assist
them with decent jobs in Russia.
The teenager without hesitation,
but with the approval of her
mother jumped at the offer with
high hopes.
According to the deceased's elder
sister, Sonia Samson, they got a call
from Mercy, on Tuesday March 4, 2014
that Forester had died in an inferno.
She added that the family was later told
that Forester was stabbed before being
set ablaze.
Sonia said, "Her madam is the one that
called us on Tuesday and told us she
was locked in a room and set ablaze by
some unknown Russians. She told us
that she was rushed to the hospital,
that they were treating her.
"Later that day, she also told us that she
was initially stabbed before she was
burnt. Not too long after, she told us
that she was dead. The madam said she
was not the only victim in the attack.
She said there were five other
Nigerians, that another one died four
or five days after the attack.
"My sister died mysteriously, just as
another sister of mine was also killed
by armed robbers. Sincerely, I am
confused because I don't know why all
this is happening to us. Particularly for
me, it is so painful that I don't really
know what to say or do. This is a
difficult time for the family and I
believe we need to be more prayerful
more than ever before."
The late Forester, who would have been
celebrating her 18th birthday on
March 30 hails from Igbekhue in
Orhionmwon Local Government Area of
Edo State. She completed her
secondary education in 2013.
Forester's father, Friday Osazuwa
Samson was killed four years ago in
Benin by suspected armed robbers. He
was shot in broad daylight in front of his
shop at Upper Sakponba. Until Friday's
death, he was a successful businessman,
a distributor with Sona and Bendel
breweries.
Siblings and other relatives of the late
Forester's father are worried and
pained by circumstances surrounding
how Forester was lured into traveling to
Russia, which they described as shady.
Recognizing the fact that she did not
travel to Russia for further education,
even as they were not also informed of
such plans, they are calling on
concerned authorities to wade into the
matter.
They are accusing Mercy of human
trafficking and calling on National
Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking
in Persons (NAPTIP) to investigate the
activities of this said Mercy. They also
want the Nigerian Embassy in Russia to
as a matter of urgency unravel the
mystery surrounding the death of their
daughter.
The dastardly act took place on March
3, 2014. Since the news broke, the
entire family has been thrown into
mourning.
Sonia, who still finds it difficult to
believe that her sister was gone,
lamented that Forester's death was too
painful for her to easily accept. To her,
she would have better been dreaming
and be glad that the story was not
true.
Meanwhile, Forester's uncle, Mr
Saturday Samson Osazuwa accused
Forester's mother of conniving with the
said madam (Mercy) to deceive and
persuade the teenager to travel abroad.
He queried why Forester's mother,
Elizabeth, decided to hide his niece's
whereabouts from him. Saturday, who
now acts as a father figure to the
children since their father's death, said
the mother refused to disclose where
Forester was, even as he insisted on
seeing her.
Said he: "The mother was aware that
Forester had traveled abroad. Not just
that, I believe she was part of the
arrangement that her 17-year-old
daughter should travel abroad. It is
really unfortunate and wicked of her to
have taken that decision.
"If my brother, her husband was alive,
he would never allow such a thing for
any of his children. What was Forester
looking for in Russia? Was it to go there
and school? Certainly not. Now, she has
caused the entire family pain and
sorrow. The girl was beautiful and
intelligent. I still cannot understand
what she was sent to Russia to do at
her tender age.
"For more than five months, her
mother was dribbling me whenever I
wanted to see Forester. I sent for her
to come and see me on a number of
occasions but they kept telling me that
she was residing with her mother's
relatives in Benin here only for me to
receive a call from them that she was
dead in a fire accident in Russia. This is
the girl that they kept telling me was in
Benin. Until her death, the mother
refused to tell anybody in our family. If
she thought that the children belonged
to her alone, that is where she's
mistaken."
Also, an uncle of late Forester's father,
Mr Evabayekha Christopher, described
Forester's mother as callous. He
wondered why any reasonable mother
would send her own daughter abroad
for monetary reasons.
His words: "What exactly will Forester
be doing abroad when she was
supposed to be studying at the
University of Benin or any other higher
institution of learning in Nigeria? What
she did is unacceptable to every
member of our family."
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