Cassandra

Cassandra beautiful and elegant, favorite of her parents among the two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Obidiegwu of Owerri North, her mother being a native of Ankpa in Benue state had fallen in love with her father while they were serving as youth coppers 19yrs ago in Otukpo, Benue state while they served in the Local Government headquarters.
Cassandra so beautiful though only 19 was the cynosure of all eyes and full of life,
Just gained admission into Imo State University Owerri to study sociology, the truth of this story is that Cassandra today lies wasting in Imo State prison instead of Imo State University and it hurts my heart as I write this story.
This story is based on a true life story and Cassandra is still in prison as at the time of this writing but the names in this story are not the actual names of the the people in this story.
Cassandra had suitors who were asking for her hand in marriage, some were pledging to take care of her education while they were married. Yes the idea was good to her owing to the fact that her parents could not actually afford to take care of her education, and so she had to make a choice among the many suitors who came to ask for her hand in marriage because to her, faithfulness to her would be spouse means the world to her.
Andrew, dark and good looking had always charmed my lady with simplicity and kindness trying to make sure she got the best in life, he had eventually visited the parents of Cassandra and informed them of his intention of taking Cassandra to the altar to be his bride.
Preparations were put in place for the traditional marriage between Cassandra and Andrew, in the usually way for women asebi ladies were already putting together clothings for their day of dancing and merriment when the sad news came.
Andrew was shot dead last night, Andrew and Cassandra had gone out last night for dinner and on their way home they stopped a chemist shop to buy paracetamol, and when they had entered into their Mercedes Benz to go home, what happened next was like in a movie.
A dark colored SUV drive by, the driver side rear window down while someone from the inside shot three times through the passenger side of the Mercedes Benz shattering the side glasses, the SUV drove off immediately, Cassandra was safe but Andrew was hit.
Help came and Andrew was rushed to a nearby hospital, he was still alive and conscious for a day and he gave up and joined his ancestors at an early age of 38. Before Andrew died he had stated while still dying in hospital with regards to the incident exonerating Cassandra in any way for what had happened to him.
Mrs. Ngozi Andrew Azubuike came pointing accusations on Cassandra that she had killed her husband. It was then Cassandra knew that Andrew had a wife and two boys, Andrew had kept this from her for the six months they had dated during which he proposed to her.
Using the word shocked or confused I would not actually know how to describe what Cassandra felt like hearing that this man whom had been so wonderful had such a big secret he kept away from her.
Cassandra was arrested by the police and she gave statement of the event of the night before, Andrew’s widow is bitter and is bent on making Cassandra pay for the death of her husband and is laying murder accusation against this young would be university student.
Cassandra was the target of the bullet and not Andrew, his wife Ngozi sent the assassins to prevent his husband from getting married to Cassandra, and she confronted Cassandra personally that since the bullet meant for her (Cassandra) hit her husband, she would have to suffer for it.
As at the time of this writing, Cassandra has been in the prison 2years, fasting and praying that God Almighty will send angels like he did to release Paul and Silas while they were in prison.
The faith of a young woman who dreamt of being a university student but ended up in Owerri prison. Will she be able to go to school again? Maybe someone will come to her rescue, maybe justice should be quicker because I believe that the truth will eventually win when the case is over in court.
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