Nothing
lasts forever; as the seasons turn, so does human life wither to age and
disease, everything vanishes like morning dew. This grim reality currently
benumbs the hearts of Jennifer’s family members.
Jennifer is dead. But tragic
as her demise is, her
family, friends and other loved ones may seek consolation
in the fact that even in death, the infinitely generous woman has gone on to
join the heavenly choir invisible of the immortal dead; the souls who pass on
but continue to live in minds and lives made better by their presence.
Yes, Jennifer became born again before she died. She was even a Pastor at
Spirit and Life Bible Church with headquarters in Benin City
Without doubt, her death once again emphasizes the fleetingness and fragility
of human life. No one would forget so easily, Jennifer Madike, the popular drug
baroness in the 80s. She was once notable for living out loud but no sooner
than the NDLEA started querying and clamping down on moneybags whose sources of
money seemed suspicious, Jennifer beat a hasty retreat from the fast lane.
It would be recalled that she
painted the town red and rocked every city she visited to the hilt back then
when she traversed the fast lane in the 80s. Jennifer partied hard and wild at
home and abroad. She remained prime favourite of high society as the society
courted her and local artistes sang her praises endlessly, until she passed
away some days ago.
The story of love-gone-sour between the then chairman of
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Fidelis Oyakhilome, and Jennifer,
generated interest nationwide between 1990 and 1991. The incident that felled
Oyakhilome from his Olympian height was his alleged complicity with Jennifer,
in offering bailout to drug barons under the influence of Jennifer’s undue
closeness to him is well documented in the media.
The specific banana peel upon
which Oyakhilome stepped and tripped, as it were, was the case of a suspected
drug baron, Gregory Odilibe, whom the NDLEA had declared wanted over drug
offences. The anti-drug agency under Oyakhilome had placed a newspaper
advertisement, declaring Odilibe wanted. But before then, series of events had
thrown up delicately pretty, suave and charming Jennifer as a special friend of
the NDLEA boss.
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