Shockwaves are reverberating across Yorùbáland and the global Yorùbá diaspora following the sudden death of the Baba Ọba (King’s Father) of the famed Oyotunji African Village in South Carolina, USA. The late Baba Ọba, Lukman Arohunfale, a revered socialite and traditionalist, passed away under circumstances already sparking fierce controversy. His death comes just days after he publicly accused the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty Oba Akeem Adéyẹmọ Owoade, of allegedly ordering his courtiers to beat him mercilessly during a recent courtesy visit to the Oyo palace in Nigeria. In a widely circulated voice recording, the deceased recounted how what was meant to be a simple homage turned violent. Although the Baba Ọba had reportedly battled ill health in the past year, growing insinuations suggest that the alleged physical assault may have aggravated his condition, ultimately leading to his untimely death. The palace in Oyo recently denied that s...
A woman, Tiffany Guest, 29, has been arrested and jailed by police after she abandoned her dog and two cats when she moved out of her flat in 201, leaving them starve.
Guest locked her cats Reggie and Ronnie and dog Kray in her flat in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, and moved out of the flat without leaving any food for them for 10 days.
The animals became hungry, tearing through the apartment looking for anything to eat.
But after wolfing down the measly scraps of leftovers, skeletal Reggie and Ronnie perished and began to fester slumped on the floor.
And in a horrific bid to survive, Kray was forced to feast on the cats’ bodies after watching them slowly die before his eyes.
Police tracked Tiffany Guest, pictured above, to her place of work blocks away from her former house but she ran away to Malta so as to avoid jail. Police later re-arrested her in 2018 at the British border when she tried coming back, and on Wednesday a court sentenced her to 16 weeks imprisonment and banned her from keeping animals for 15 years.
The RSPCA released pictures of Kray’s emaciated body and Reggie’s remains. RSPCA Inspector Boris Lasserre said to Metro UK after the case: ‘It is incomprehensible to think the suffering these pets must have endured and how terrified they must have been for such a long period of time before the cats died of starvation.
It must have been terrible for Kray to watch as the cats died in front of him. ‘There was evidence the pets had scavenged to try and feed themselves as the bin contents were all over the kitchen floor.
‘Just 14 days later, by being fed properly in RSPCA care he made an amazing recovery with a significant increase in weight.
‘Warwickshire Police officers did an amazing job in finding Kray, who they renamed Bobby, just in time as he would not have survived much longer. ‘He is a lovely gentle dog and made a remarkable recovery in RSPCA care and has now been re-homed.’
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