Nollywood’s Mercy Aigbe Reacts To Alleged Murder Of Nigerian Singer Alizee By Her Danish Husband
Mercy Aigbe who is a victim of domestic violence herself, has expressed herself on the alleged killing of Zainab Ali-Nielsen and her daughter by her husband, Peter Nielsen Schau. Their bodies were found on Thursday last week, in the kitchen at their residence in Banana Island, Lagos.
Mercy Aigbe took to Instagram to react strongly about the brutal murder of Nigerian singer Alizee, 37, and her daughter Petra, 4. She wrote:
“It’s a Shame how people allow the society to dictate for them!!!! It is your life! And trust me your life matters!….. Pls flee from an abusive relationship/marriage, no one has the right to physically abuse their partner regardless!!!!!…. Talkless of taking another person’s life 😡…. I am so pained with this story I saw online, Jesus!!!! Why will someone take the life of his wife and beautiful innocent child! Why 😥😥😥😥😥……
Pls if are reading this and you are in an abusive relationship/marriage pls run for your dear life before it’s too late! Let people say whatever they want to say, na dem get their mouth!!!!
Stop saying where will I start from? Stop saying I am staying because of the kids!!!…Stop making excuses, before it’s too late!!!!!…. Trust me you are stronger than you think and you are more useful to your children alive than been dead or disabled!
#saynotodomesticviolence
#zerotolerancetodomesticviolence
#domesticviolenceisacrime
#runforyourlife
#domesticviolencesurvivor”
In another post, the actress wrote:
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a VICTIM. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself, your happiness is all that matters.”
Meanwhile, Alizee’s family members are still in shock over her death. However, the late Nigerian singer’s father disclosed in a chat with Sunday Scoop, that his daughter’s Danish husband started assaulting her last year. Giving insights into Alizee’s relationship with her husband, Ali Madaki said:
“I have known my late daughter’s husband for over seven years now. At the outset, he was of good character but last year, he started fighting his wife. Last November, a case was reported at the police station when he beat her to a coma. He then wrote an undertaking that he would never batter her again.”
On how he found out about the incident, Ali said:
“On Thursday morning, he called me; I was in Abuja. Since I missed his calls, I called back and he told me he saw my daughter and granddaughter on the floor in the kitchen. I asked what went wrong; he didn’t say a word and dropped the call. One of my two daughters staying with them called their mother and broke the news. We took the next flight to Lagos and found out she was dead truly. I didn’t even know my grandchild was dead too. I told my daughter to get Petra for me and we should go, then she told me she was dead too. I was shocked. The husband claimed it was gas suffocation that killed them. We know that gas doesn’t kill people that way. In the pictures, you would see bruises all over their bodies. They were strangled to death. I strongly believe he did it because their compound is highly secured. Whenever I visited them, the security operatives had to confirm my visit with them before I would be allowed in.”
Alizee’s father also disclosed that he was unaware whether the Danish man was a drug addict or alcoholic. He said:
“I don’t know if he has a history of being an alcoholic or drug addict. She once came back to our house in Abuja after being battered by her husband. She was there for almost a month. The man came and started begging that he was drunk. He said he consumed too much alcohol on the fateful day he beat her. Since they had been together for a while and he had never misbehaved, I accepted his plea and allowed Alizee to return to Lagos.
“My two daughters are in the police station right now to give their statements because they witnessed all that happened. They said he hit her head on the wall. In the morning, he then asked them where his wife was. They pretended they didn’t know what happened. They knew that if they had made any attempts, they could be attacked too. There were five people in the house when the incident occurred – my late daughter, her child, husband and my two daughters – one 12-year-old and the other 10-year-old. I have four girls; Alizee is my first child and her immediate younger sister works in a bank.”
“He cannot do this in our country and get away with it even though he could get away with it if he had done it in his country. We want our government to pass a strong message to other foreigners with this. If this happens in their country, they would surely execute the Nigerian. Our government must give justice too as they do in other countries.”
Alizee’s younger sister, Gift Madaki witnessed the incident. However, she couldn’t intervene out of fear Peter Nielsen Schau would attack her. She said:
“I was at home when the incident occurred. When she was crying for help, I went to see what was going on and I saw the husband hitting her head on the wall. I couldn’t come out because I knew he would descend on me too. The man is aggressive.”
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