Benin Landlady Locks Evangelist Out, Cites Late Night Habit
An angry landlady, identified as Mrs Felicia Amegor, around Anti Maria School Road in Benin City, Edo state, on Monday night, allegedly locked out her tenant, an evangelist, for coming home late.
It was gathered that the tenant habitually kept late nights and that this was a source of problem to the landlady who claimed that all efforts to ensure that she, the evangelist, stopped it had proved abortive. She said she had given her a quit notice before but the she refused to leave the house.
Sources said that the landlady, on the fateful Monday night, waited till 1am at the entrance door to the house without the tenant coming home but that she, rather, returned at about 2am, singing and accusing the landlady of being wicked.
The tenant was said to have slept outside with her 18-year-old son, but was rescued by members of the vigilante group in the area who provided her and the son with a place to sleep till morning when she moved in to the house.
The tenant, a widow who had lived in the North for several years before returning to her home town in Benin City, claimed she embraced God in full swing and had been preaching the gospel over the years, including selling fairly used clothes at Oloku town near the University of Benin, (UNIBEN). She added, with regrets, that she had never had peace with the landlady since moving into the house.
Speaking to our correspondent, the landlady, Amegor said “I have severally begged the tenant to always come home on time, but she refused and continued to come home late in the night, most times, wee hours in the name of evangelism and I took the decision to lock her outside on the fateful day and instead of apologising, she threatened to report to the police. I am waiting for the police”.
In response, the tenant said “I am just being attacked for nothing because I told my landlady that I do the work of God when I was coming into the house; and she will not see reasons with me. I will rather pack out and go elsewhere for my evangelism.”
Meanwhile, the Edo state government has warned officials of the Public Works Volunteers (PUWOV) scheme, empowered to enforce regulations on public safety and order, against extortion and maltreatment of traders and commercial vehicle drivers.
The state coordinator of PUWOV, Mukhtar Yusuf Osagie, in a statement in Benin City, however, urged members of the public to report any officer of the scheme found extorting money or manhandling street traders or drivers to the appropriate authorities, disclosing that all commercial motor vehicle drivers were expected to operate in their different designed parks, adding that the street traders had been mandated to go back to their respective markets. He urged all commercial bus drivers, car drivers, tax or cab drivers not to pick or drop passengers in prohibited areas.
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