Social media can be judge, jury and executioner. Unfortunately we sometimes jump to conclusions after reading things spread via social media without waiting to verify the facts!!!
The news has been making the rounds regarding the untimely death of Dr Hastianah Thomas in what seemed like rather suspicious circumstances. There are allegations that there were lacerations on her remains and the social media has been agog with people making comments and calling the Husband Dr Babafemi Thomas all sort of names.
Lets be clear that Naijaman does not condone violence and does not believe that would solve anything however the only facts that we have to work with now is that:
1) Dr Hastianah is dead.
2)Another fact is that her death is rather suspicious.
3) Fact number three is that the husband need to be asked what really transpired.
4) Hastianah's mother who happened to be a trained Psychologists has come out to say that she is appalled at the gale of accusations that are being leveled at her son -in-law,Dr Babafemi Thomas
5) Nigerian mothers are fiercely protective of their daughters even when they are married. You can not kill or lay hands on their daughter and expect that they would not come after you with all that they got. Now that is a well known fact in the Nigerian context.
Having itemized all these facts it is rather extremely irresponsible to just jump to hasty conclusions when an autopsy/forensic review of the case has not been done. Furthermore,the family is grappling with rather crippling grief that that are trying to come to terms with with and folks are just having verbal diarrhea calling the husband all sort of nasty names. Once again,I am not holding brief for the husband nor defending him but people should rather state the facts of what we know for now while we wait for the results of autopsy and police investigation instead of just jumping to conclusions.
