Damilola Abiola

Iniubong Umoren: A Lesson for Job Seekers When I watched Arise News this morning and saw the news coverage about this poor young woman, I literally cowered in fear. The young lady in question is a 26 year old is a graduate of University of Uyo and met her Waterloo after a man by the name of Mr Uduak Akpan lured to a fake job interview on April 29, killed her and then buried her remains in a shallow grave in his father’s compound. She was declared dead on April 30 and just recently got buried and as a result, the story started gaining momentum as of recent. What really sickened me the most about this incident was Mr Akpan admitting to using reverse psychology to manipulate this poor lady. To quote him: “She (Ms Umoren) came for a supposed job interview in which I used reverse psychology on her. I asked her if she can work in a farm where hard drugs are kept as a secretary and she said she can — that she’s ready to do the job.” “When she came, I revealed to her that this farm does not exist. There is no farm like that. It was just a hoax. I told her that before she leaves that I would like to have sex with her and she agreed. She gave a condition that I should use a condom, which I did. While I removed the condom, she became furious. She took a nearby stabiliser to hit me on my head and she bit my left ring finger and tried to reach for the wall, screaming. “While I was bleeding, in a bid to stop her, I used the same stabiliser to hit her. She fell and started bleeding.” The stabliliser according to various news sources was a pressing iron. The fact that he admits to hurting no more than six other women the same way shows how disgusting of a man that he is. So to all you job seekers out there. Be warned. Let her case serve as a lesson to all of us. Do not ever drop your guard. Be careful with some of these online job postings. You never know which devil could be trying to lure you into a deadly trap. This also applies to social media as a whole. Be careful who you meet online and who you give information to. To all you parents, stop pressuring us your children. Stop shoving toxic ideals down our throats. It is thanks to your toxicity that young girls like Iniubong end up in situations like that. To all those online job sites like Linkedin, please filter out these recruiters and job posts. There are a lot of scammers out there.