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Under the Influence:

 FEMALE MAGISTRATE CONFESSES KILLING HER CHILDREN AND REQUESTS TO BE DETAINED BY THE POLICE

UNDENYABLE POWER OF THE GOSPEL UNTO SALVATION

She previously denied committing the crime when she was arrested in 1999 and was eventually granted bail. Her recent confession may not be unconnected with hearing the gospel in a church which she joined later after denial of the crime and being granted release on bail. The church ministers are her elder sister and her husband who pastor the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Port Harcourt.

Betty was previously married to an Igbo business man from Imo State, but due to irreconcilable differences they divorced. However, their two off-springs from the marriage, who alternate between them, kept them in contact. It was on one occasion after she went to her former husband to pick up the kids for a weekend that she took them to the hotel room where she committed the plot.

DETENTION DENIED AFTER CONFESSION

The driver who she called to pick them up from the hotel noticed as she was carrying corpses into the car and raised an alarm. Although, she denied at that time to have committed the crime and was released from detention, this time she asked for detention after her confession but it was denied.

In her confession before the Police Commissioner, Mr. Sylvester Araba, Betty said that although she killed her two children, it was under the influence of an occult syndicate. Her words were as follows:

“I am aware of what killed my children. My hands were used to strangle them, but I was manipulated by those controlling me,” (http://odili.net/news/source/2004/jun/15/44.html).

THREAT TO EXPOSE THE OCCULT - Supposedly - SOUNDED INSANE (even though Murders by Occultic Cults are known to abound in Nigeria)

Betty Bob-Manuel who is from the popular Bob-Manuel family of Abonema in Rivers State, threatened to expose all the occult activities of the syndicate which made her murder her children and to name its members. She requested to be detained in order to have the necessary police protection before exposing the occult group. However, her request was denied on the grounds that it sounded insane.

Previously, in the case, when she was released from detention, she was transferred to a psychiatric hospital at Port Harcourt and a few years later she was released on the grounds of recovery. Therefore, the police have denied her detention stating that her case is a spiritual one and not a case that has any solution in their granting her detention.

It is said that efforts to get her family members for comment failed but a former room mate of hers at the Bayero University said she was not surprised about her story because she was known for “erratic mood swings” while she was at the university. It was also because of her mental inconsistencies which came to the notice of the authorities that she was relieved from her post as magistrate before the incident of her kids took place.

Nigerian-born Herbert Eze has seven years of marketing experience and twenty years of pastoral/teaching and political experience.