Elizabeth, the young sister of the comedian killed by vigilantes in Ikorodu who accused him of being a member of the Badoo cult, said her brother was killed by those who knew him.
The 26-year-old Paul Chinedu, also known as MC Think Twice and two others were set ablaze in the wee hours of Sunday, April 2 while on their way to pick the comedian’s car broken down car.
Shola, a rewire, and Sunday, a mechanic, were the two people lynched along with the comedian.
They were on their way to the spot where Chinedu’s newly-acquired second-hand Honda car when disaster struck.
“Paul had been in the house throughout that Saturday until about 10:00pm when he left for Ikorodu Garage to wait for the mechanic and rewire who were coming all the way from FESTAC,” Elizabeth, younger sibling of the late comedian, told Punch.
“Shola, the rewire, used to be our neighbour here at Ikorodu before he moved to FESTAC after he got married in 2010,” she continued.
“He is a specialist in Honda cars and that was why my brother begged him to come and help fix his vehicle. If not for the traffic they encountered along the way, they would have arrived Ikorodu earlier to tow the car with the SUV Shola brought from FESTAC.
“But before they could get to where Paul’s car was parked, they were stopped by some guys on the road.
“One of the guys who stopped them told the others that he knew my brother and that they should be allowed to go. The others refused and proceeded to searching the vehicle. They saw the chain Shola wanted to use to tow the vehicle and brake oil in the boot of the SUV.
“Immediately the guys saw these, they started shouting Badoo. Even though the other one said he knew my brother well in the area, which another person among them also confirmed, they went ahead to kill the three of them by burning them alive.
“By the time we got there by 3:00am after receiving a call from somebody who witnessed the scene, it was too late. They had been burnt already,” she said.
The same gruesome treatment was almost extended to members of the comedian’s family, Elizabeth added.
“We all could have been dead by now if not for divine intervention. I, my mother, younger sister and Paul’s girlfriend could all have been killed by the same guys after they identified us to be his relatives.
“Immediately they saw a small plastic containing gear oil in the boot of the car that conveyed us to the spot where the three of them were burnt, the guys started shouting Badoo family.
“They shoved and pushed us about for several minutes and were going to descend heavily on us when one man ordered them to leave us, that if we were indeed Badoo members, we couldn’t have had the guts to come to that place. That was how we escaped being lynched that morning.”
