Nigerian movie producer arrested for attempted ritual murder

A youth corps member, Mrs. Patience Bula, serving at Radio Benue Markudi, Benue State has escaped being killed by a certain movie producer, Adams Marvin, who has been accused of attempting to murder Bula for ritual purposes.

  According to a social media call that was made to invite pressure groups as well as humanitarian organizations to come out to Division Police Station, Wadata-Market and demand justice for Patience Bula, the young woman who attempted becoming an actress through the said Adams narrowly escaped death.
Below is the account of the incident as well as the need to demand justice for patience.

Mrs. Patience Bula (Tiv girl) who is a graduate of Mass Communication and a corp member currently serving at Radio Benue Makurdi was invited by a friend (Precious), an Igbo Lady and also fellow corper after their CDS to show up for a movie rehearsal she was taking part in and to perhaps, also pick a simple role. A thing she succumbed to after some persuasion. There she was introduced to one Adams Marvin (Idoma boy) who was the one managing the shooting of the movie and was subsequently attached a simple role and handed the scripts. Subsequently, she was asked to bring the script as it contained some roles of other artists, a thing she did voluntarily at the Eunice Resort Centre, venue of the rehearsal where she had been offered the role.

    On Sunday, 10th September, 2017, the said Marvins called Patience that there was need to cut down participating actors in the movie to save cost, hence the production team was short of finance. He therefore urged Patience to meet him at Hope Clinic, Wadata, where other actors and actresses were waiting to be shortlisted. On getting to the clinic, Patience saw no one and Marvins appeared minutes later to tell her that all the people were gathered in a house down the street opposite the hospital. Not convinced enough though, she decided to make the walk down into a compound and then into a supposed room where there was no one. He urged her to sit and then told her that there was a scramble for roles and so she should pray that she would not be thrown out. In the process, he also sat on same bed and bent backwards as if in a bid to pick something and next thing she experienced was a stick held at either ends across her neck in front in a bid to strangle her. She started struggling and screaming for help which didn’t come. It became a scramble that lasted minutes. She was determined not to die like a chicken and struggled until the stick was loosed. He used the stick to hit her on the chest until she became unconscious only to wake up minutes later with foam on her mouth. She crawled to the door step where a boy came over to help her to lie on the corridor. The scene attracted sympathizers and some of the compound neighbors who had earlier failed to turn up. It was in the midst of all this that Marvin showed up, perhaps believing she must have been dead. Surprised to see her awake, he started claiming she was his girlfriend who came to visit him and in the process of love-making, started convulsing.

   It was so unbelievable and a youth leader who showed up helped recover her phone from the said room that had by then been switched off.

All these had taken place about 2:30pm and Patience’s husband was later reached and he showed up and almost shed tears for what his wife had went through. The youths within the area dragged the suspect to the police station where he is under lock and key and Patience was taken to a hospital.