Daughter Rescue Father From Wicked Family Members Who Held Him Hostage
This story is heartbreaking and shocking. Peter Mokwuah, a retiree who worked in the US for 25 years, was allegedly held captive by his siblings in his own mansion in Nigeria. His daughter, Ifunanya, traveled from the US to Nigeria after losing contact with him and found him in a deplorable state, neglected and weak.
A lady named Ifunanya is sharing a story about her father’s unpleasant experience after he worked in the United States for 25 years and relocated to Nigeria for retirement. You will think you are watching a Nollywood episode movie when listening to the story, but it is a true-life story that gives me goosebumps.
Below is what Martin Beck Nworah has to say about it:
An American returnee named Peter Mokwuah was reportedly held captive in his mansion by his siblings for nearly a year in Anambra State.
His daughter, Ifunanya Mokwuah, who lives in the USA, grew concerned after losing contact with him for several months. Despite repeated reassurances from her aunt and uncle that her father was fine, she felt compelled to travel to Nigeria in January 2022.
Her father (Peter) had lived and worked in New York for 25 years before retiring and returning to Nigeria, where he had already built a mansion in his village during his younger years. He also receives a $5,000 monthly pension and social security for his upkeep. Perhaps this was what they targeted immediately after he had a stroke. I won’t put it past them being able to have caused him that injury. Despite this, his daughter continued to send him money, thinking he might have run out.
When Ifunanya arrived at the village, she encountered resistance from her uncle and his wife who had blocked the compound entrance and verbally attacked her. With help from local youths and villagers, she gained access to the house. Her uncle falsely claimed her father was in Abuja, but after insisting on checking upstairs, she discovered him lying weak and emaciated on a dirty mattress.
His beard and nails were overgrown, and he was neglected in his poor medical state. Peter recognised his daughter and was visibly relieved. Imagine how Ifunanya felt seeing her father in that state, despite all the money he receives. Mehn!
Thankfully, she was able to remove him from the house, moved him to Lagos for further treatment and return to the USA.
In all these events, I am grateful that Ifunanya’s father trained her to know the way to her father’s house in the village. Something all parents in the diaspora should think about, especially those with plans to retire in their village back home.
This is also a lesson for those who see their wife as an outsider. Look at what a man’s siblings did to him because he trusted them so much against his wife and children. Yet it was the child who came looking and rescued him.
They were already building a new house beside the one Peter built and it is clear whose money was being used for that construction.
Thank God for his life and the gift of a daughter like Ifunanya.
