A 68-year-old man identified as Ete Ibam has lost his life in a mysterious circumstance barely few weeks after he raped his sister's daughter.

 

Ibam who is from Ibam Edet Community in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State lived with his family in the Ori-oke area of Ogudu, Lagos State died on Thursday, November 5, just hours after he was taken back to the village when all medical treatment and tests could not decipher what the problem was with him.

 

Narrating what happened, a close family member who does not want to be named said: "Ete Ibam's death is really a mystery but he led himself to such a gory death. What actually happened stemmed from the fact that he raped his sister's 18-year-old daughter and the girl laid a curse on him.

 

 

"The mother of the girl lives in Ikorodu but the girl decided to leave home and go to Ogudu to live with her uncle.

 

"According to the girl, on the night of the incident, she was sleeping in the room when her uncle forcefully had sex with her while holding a knife to her throat.

 

 

"The girl then went naked and poured curses on him and not up to a month, Ete Ibam fell sick. He started drying up and we took him to many hospitals but nothing was detected. It was at a church that a prophet said it was the curse the girl laid on him and she was told to remove the curse which she did.

 

 

"People from the village who heard what he had done, told him to come home and appease the gods but he refused until the sickness became worse and he was taken home but immediately he stepped into his father's compound, he slumped and died."

 

Many residents of the area believe that the man paid with his life for the sacrilege he committed. They said that the incurable sickness which later took his life was as a result of the evil he committed.